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Released
1963 · FILM

Irma la Douce

A down‑on‑his‑luck cop falls for a charismatic Parisian prostitute and, desperate to be her only lover, invents a secret alter‑ego to become her exclusive client—risking exposure and chaos as his double life spirals out of control.

“A story of passion, bloodshed, desire and death... everything, in fact, that makes life worth living.”

Directed by
Billy Wilder
Written by
Alexandre Breffort, Billy Wilder
Runtime
147 min
ComedyRomance
Streaming on
  • MGM+

Synopsis

A recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute and, not wanting her to be with other men, creates an alter-ego to become her only customer.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Daniel MandellShot by Joseph LashelleScored by Andre Previn

Box Office

1963 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.0× 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

$25.2M

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$25.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Das Mädchen Irma la Doucede
  • Irma la dulcees
  • Irma la dolceit

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