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Released
2005 · FILM

Elsa & Fred

Directed by
Marcos Carnevale
Written by
Marcos Carnevale, Marcela Guerty
Runtime
108 min
Language
ES
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

When the retired seventy‑seven‑year‑old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next‑door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life, leading to a romance.

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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 Nacho Ruiz CapillasShot by Juan Carlos GomezScored by Lito Vitale

Box Office

2005 · 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$2.6M
Worldwide gross$3.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Elsa & Fredde
  • Elsa & Freden
  • Elsa et Fredfr

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