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Released
1991 · FILM

Black Robe

“In the winter of 1634, an extraordinary man began a perilous journey into the North American wilderness.”

Directed by
Bruce Beresford
Written by
Brian Moore
Runtime
101 min
AdventureDramaWar
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Missionary Father LaForgue journeys to the New World with the goal of converting the Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. He is cautiously accepted by the tribe and travels with them, applying his strict Catholic principles in an effort to promote his faith.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Tim WellburnShot by Peter JamesScored by Georges DelerueDesigned by Herbert Pinter

Box Office

1991 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$8.2M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$8.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Am Fluß der Irokesende
  • Black Robe - Am Fluss der Irokesende
  • Black Robe - Am Fluß der Irokesende
  • Manto negroes
  • Robe noirefr
  • Manto neroit

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