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Released
2009 · FILM

Dogtooth

A sheltered teenager desperate to discover the real world must outwit her tyrannical parents and break free from their twisted, isolated reality before she’s forever trapped in their fabricated lies.

Directed by
Yorgos Lanthimos, Christos Nikou
Written by
Efthimis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Rated
MPA · Not Rated
Runtime
97 min
Language
EL
DramaThriller

Synopsis

Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence "the sea" refers to a large armchair and "zombies" are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the ultra-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 83+ credited

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 Yorgos MavropsaridisShot by Thimios BakatakisSound by Leandros NtounisCostumes by Elli Papageorgakopoulou

Box Office

2009 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$110K

Budget$275K
Worldwide gross$110K
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

202514 theaters
$170K($175K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • (French)Canine
  • Dogtoothde
  • Kynódontasde
  • Dogtoothen
  • Caninoes
  • Caninefr
  • Kynodontasit
  • (Bulgarian)Кучешки зъб
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • FranceMay 18, 2009
  • GermanyJun 1, 2009
  • AustraliaJul 1, 2009
  • BelgiumJul 1, 2009
  • IsraelJul 1, 2009

Companies

ProductionBoo Productions, Greek Film Centre (GFC), Horsefly Productions

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