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Released
2011 · FILM

Le Havre

An aging shoeshiner in Le Havre risks everything to shelter a young African refugee while evading relentless police who are determined to deport the boy.

Directed by
Aki Kaurismaki
Written by
Aki Kaurismaki
Runtime
94 min
Language
FR
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

In the French port city of Le Havre, an elderly shoeshiner whose wife is ill encounters a young African refugee who is being hunted by the police for deportation.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 14

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 Timo LinnasaloShot by Timo SalminenDesigned by Wouter Zoon

Box Office

2011 · 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

$4.2M

Budget$3.9M
Worldwide gross$4.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $30K

Peak 6 theaters

Also known as

  • Miracolo a Le Havreit

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