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Released
1998 · FILM

Short Sharp Shock

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
100 min
Language
DE
CrimeDramaThriller
Streaming on
  • MUBI

Synopsis

Gabriel, Bobby, and Costa are childhood friends from Altona, a multicultural neighborhood in Hamburg. After being released from prison, Gabriel seeks to leave his criminal past behind, while Bobby and Costa continue to engage in petty crime. As the three navigate a dangerous underworld involving mafia bosses and botched deals, their friendship is put to the test.

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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 Andrew BirdShot by Frank BarbianScored by Ulrich Kodjo WendtDesigned by Guido Amin Fahim

Box Office

1998 · Box office

Produced on a $500K budget

Production budget

$500K

Also known as

  • Short Sharp Shocken
  • Corto y con filoes
  • L'Engrenagefr

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