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Released
2025 · FILM

It Was Just an Accident

A weary mechanic discovers a stranger who may be his former Iranian prison tormentor and must decide whether to confront his haunting past before the danger of vengeance consumes him.

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Runtime
103 min
Language
FR
CrimeDramaMystery

Synopsis

An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor.

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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 Amir EtminanShot by Amin Jafari

Box Office

2025 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.6× 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

$9.6M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$9.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $1.8M 18% of worldwide · International: $7.8M (82%)

Opening weekend: $47K 3% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $47K3% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3 theaters

Also known as

  • It Was Just an Accidentde
  • It Was Just an Accidenten
  • Yek tasadef sadehfa
  • Un simple accidentfr
  • Yek tasādof-e sādeit

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