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Released
2004 · FILM

Mars

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
100 min
Language
RU
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

Deep in Russia lies a town named Marks, after Karl Marx, the founder of Communist theory. In this town, all the residents work in a toy factory and are paid in toys instead of money. News from outside the town is extremely rare. One morning, Boris, a former boxer fleeing from an unknown past, wakes up on a train and sees the letters MAR_S. As he begins to explore the town, he meets new people, including Gregori, a young man with dreams of a better life and who is in love with Greta, the local librarian, who also dreams of escaping the town. With each new encounter, Boris finds himself drawn deeper into the lives of the townspeople, though his past continues to haunt him.

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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 Ivan LebedevShot by Oleg LukichyovScored by Alexei AiguiDesigned by Ulyana Ryabova

Box Office

2004 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$240K

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$240K
break-even (2.5×)

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