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Released
1997 · FILM

Photographing Fairies

“Another world… as close as the beat of your heart”

Directed by
Nick Willing
Written by
Chris Harrald, Steve Szilagyi
Runtime
106 min
DramaFantasyMystery

Synopsis

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Sean BartonShot by John De BormanScored by Simon BoswellDesigned by Laurence Dorman

Box Office

1997 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — 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

$4

Budget$1
Worldwide gross$4
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der Elfengartende
  • Fotografiando hadases
  • Foreverfr
  • Fotografando i fantasmiit

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