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Released
1931 · FILM

Mata Hari

Men worshipped her like a goddess, only to be betrayed by a kiss!

Runtime
89 min
CrimeDramaRomance

Synopsis

The work presents a semi‑fictionalized portrayal of Mata Hari’s life, focusing on her career as an exotic dancer and the accusations that she spied for Germany during the First World War.

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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 Frank SullivanShot by William H Daniels

Box Office

1931 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 4.0× 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

$2.2M

Budget$558K
Worldwide gross$2.2M
break-even (2.5×)

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