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Released
2009 · FILM

Soul Kitchen

A hapless Hamburg restaurateur fights to save his beloved neighborhood eatery when a talented new chef threatens the fragile balance of his loyal clientele.

“Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.”

Directed by
Fatih Akin
Written by
Fatih Akin, Adam Bousdoukos
Rated
MPA · NR
Runtime
99 min
Language
DE
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • MUBI

Synopsis

In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disrupts the harmony of his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more skilled chef.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 40

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 Rainer KlausmannDesigned by Tamo Kunz

Box Office

2009 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.5× 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

$18.2M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$18.2M
break-even (2.5×)

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