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Released
1978 · FILM

F.I.S.T.

“A story about a man, the woman he loved, and the men he fought for.”

Directed by
Norman Jewison
Written by
Joe Eszterhas, Sylvester Stallone
Runtime
145 min
CrimeDramaThriller

Synopsis

Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher, his methods become more ruthless, and eventually Senator Madison starts a campaign to uncover the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.

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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 Graeme CliffordShot by Laszlo KovacsScored by Bill ContiDesigned by Richard Macdonald

Box Office

1978 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.9× 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

$20.4M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$20.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • F.I.S.T. - Ein Mann geht seinen Wegde
  • F. I. S. T.es
  • FISTfr

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