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Released
2016 · FILM

May God Save Us

Amid the chaos of Madrid's economic crisis and a massive papal pilgrimage, two flawed detectives race against time to stop a serial killer—only to discover unsettling parallels between themselves and the murderer.

Directed by
Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Written by
Isabel Pena, Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Runtime
127 min
Language
ES
CrimeDramaThriller

Synopsis

Set in Madrid during the summer of 2011 amid economic crisis, the 15-M movement overlaps with the arrival of 1.5 million pilgrims for the Pope’s visit, creating a tense and chaotic atmosphere. Against this backdrop, detectives Velarde and Alfaro pursue what appears to be a serial killer. As their time-sensitive investigation unfolds, they come to a realization they had not anticipated: they are not as different from the killer as they once believed.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Alberto Del CampoShot by Alejandro De PabloScored by Olivier Arson

Box Office

2016 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$1.6M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$1.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die Morde von Madridde
  • May God Save Usen
  • Che Dio ci perdoniit

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