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Released
2004 · FILM

Night Watch

Anton, a seasoned member of Moscow’s secretive Night Watch, must outwit rogue supernatural assassins and prevent a fragile truce from shattering before the city descends into chaotic darkness.

“All that stands between light and darkness is the night watch.”

Directed by
Timur Bekmambetov, Dmitry Galperin
Written by
Timur Bekmambetov, Laeta Kalogridis
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
114 min
Language
RU
ActionFantasyHorror
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

In the world, normal humans coexist with the "Others," individuals who possess various supernatural abilities. These Others are divided into the forces of light and the forces of darkness, who entered into a truce centuries ago to end a destructive conflict. Since then, the forces of light have governed the day, while the night is under the control of their dark counterparts. In modern-day Moscow, the dark Others take to the night as vampires, while a "Night Watch" composed of light forces, including Anton, the film's protagonist, works to control them and prevent their excesses.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 125+ credited

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 Dmitriy KiselevShot by Sergey TrofimovScored by Yuriy PoteenkoDesigned by Mukhtar MirzakeyevSound by Alexander AbramovStunts by Sergei VorobyovVFX by Evgeny Barulin

Box Office

2004 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.0× 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

$50.3M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$50.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $32.4M — 64% of worldwide · International: $17.9M (36%)

Re-release box office

2006158 theaters
$2.5M($4.2M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Versions & cuts

  • international· 104 min

Also known as

  • Wächter der Nachtde
  • Wächter der Nacht – Nochnoi Dozorde
  • Night Watchen
  • Nochnoy dozoren
  • Guardianes de la nochees
  • Night Watchfr
  • I guardiani della notteit
  • (English)Night Watch
  • Nochnoi Dozorru
  • (Bulgarian)Нощна стража
Release dates around the world2 countries · show
  • RussiaJun 27, 2004
  • UkraineJul 8, 2004

Companies

ProductionBazelevs Production, Perviy Kanal, TABBAK
DistributionGemini Film, 20th Century Fox
Special effectsDr. PICTURE Studios, Ulitka" Studio, Bazelevs Production, Encore, KeyArt
Other companiesMi" Production Studio, Atmosfera Studio, Babich Design, FotoKem, Mental Drive Studio

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