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Released
1981 · FILM

Dragonslayer

A fledgling sorcerer teams with his master to slay a fearsome dragon before it claims the king’s daughter, risking their lives to break a deadly pact and save an entire realm.

In the Dark Ages, Magic was a weapon. Love was a mystery. Adventure was everywhere...And Dragons were real.

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Runtime
108 min
ActionAdventureFantasy

Synopsis

A sorcerer and his apprentice embark on a mission to kill an evil dragon in order to save the King's daughter, who is to be sacrificed as part of a pact the King made with the dragon to protect his kingdom.

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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 Tony LawsonShot by Derek VanlintScored by Alex NorthDesigned by Elliot Scott

Box Office

1981 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× 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

$14.1M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$14.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der Drachentöterde
  • Le Dragon du lac de feufr
  • Il drago del lago di fuocoit

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