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Released
1972 · FILM

Avanti!

A successful businessman journeys to Italy to repatriate his father's body, but uncovers a scandalous secret that threatens to upend his family's legacy.

“When someone knocks on your door and says permesso?... be careful before you say Avanti!”

Directed by
Billy Wilder
Written by
Samuel A Taylor, Billy Wilder
Runtime
138 min
ComedyRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A successful businessman travels to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body, only to learn that his father died with his longtime mistress.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

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 Ralph E WintersShot by Luigi Kuveiller

Box Office

1972 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× 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

$3.0M

Budget$2.8M
Worldwide gross$3.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Avanti, avanti!de
  • ¿Qué ocurrió entre mi padre y tu madre?es
  • Che cosa è successo tra mio padre e tua madre?it

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