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Released
1985 · FILM

Plenty

To know the pleasure of power. To feel the heat of passion. To stretch life to the absolute limit. She would settle for nothing less.

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Runtime
124 min
Drama

Synopsis

A David Hare film portraying a former French freedom fighter who comes to terms with the fact that her life after the war fails to meet her expectations.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Peter HonessShot by Ian BakerScored by Bruce SmeatonDesigned by Richard Macdonald

Box Office

1985 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× 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

$6.1M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$6.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Eine demanzipierte Fraude

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