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Released
2009 · FILM

Ajami

Directed by
Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Written by
Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Runtime
120 min
Language
HE
CrimeDrama

Synopsis

Ajami is a neighborhood in Tel Aviv, Israel, where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews, and Christians live together in a tense environment. Omar, an Israeli Arab, attempts to protect his family from a group of extortionists while also pursuing a relationship with Hadir, a Christian woman. Malek, an illegal Palestinian laborer, works to raise enough money to cover the cost of his mother's medical procedure. Dando, an Israeli police officer, tries to locate his missing brother, who may have been killed by Palestinians.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Scandar CoptiShot by Boaz Yehonatan Yaacov

Box Office

2009 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.3M

Budget$1.0M
Worldwide gross$1.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • عجميar
  • Ajamide
  • Ajami - Stadt der Götterde
  • Ajamifr

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