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Released
2016 · FILM

Silence

A young Jesuit priest journeys to 17th-century Japan to find his mentor, only to confront the brutal clash between faith and survival under a fanatical regime.

“Sometimes silence is the deadliest sound.”

Directed by
Martin Scorsese
Written by
Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
161 min
DramaHistory
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests journey to Japan in search of their mentor, who is said to have committed apostasy, and with the aim of spreading Catholicism.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 29

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 Thelma SchoonmakerShot by Rodrigo PrietoScored by Kathryn KlugeDesigned by Dante Ferretti

Box Office

2016 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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

$23.8M

Budget$46.0M
Worldwide gross$23.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $7.1M — 30% of worldwide · International: $16.7M (70%)

Opening weekend: $131K — 2% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $227K — 3% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4 theaters

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  • Silencede

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