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Released
1972 · FILM

Bloody Friday

“When terrorists rob a Bank… all hell is let loose!”

Directed by
Rolf Olsen, Lee Payant
Written by
Valeria Bonamano, Rolf Olsen
Runtime
94 min
Language
DE
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Womanizing thug Klett is sprung from the courthouse by two accomplices, then sets about planning the big heist of a local bank, equipped with a cache of high-powered weapons he's acquired from an American army outpost. Together with his faithful protégé, who reluctantly on-boards his young girlfriend and her AWOL brother, the quartet bumble their way through the supposedly full-proof plan that aims to deliver them a cool million in cash and a new life in Australia. Predictably, things deteriorate quickly at every turn.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Amedeo GiominiShot by Franz Xaver LederleScored by Francesco De Masi

Box Office

1972 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 35× 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

$3.5M

Budget$100K
Worldwide gross$3.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Bloody Fridayen
  • Vendredi sanguinairefr
  • Violenza contro la violenzait

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