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Released
2019 · FILM

The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle

Directed by
Mikkel Br Nne Sandemose
Written by
Aleksander Kirkwood Brown
Runtime
99 min
Language
NO
AdventureFamilyFantasy

Synopsis

When the King and Queen are poisoned, brothers Per and Pål get arrested, suspected of being behind it. Younger brother Espen "Ash Lad" and Princess Kristin set out on a quest to find the mythical Soria Moria castle, which is said to be built of pure gold. In Soria Moria, there sits a well containing the Water of Life; the only thing that can cure Kristin's parents. But some wicked Danes are also on the hunt to find the castle. If Espen and Kristin fail, it will spell the end for the brothers, the kingdom - and perhaps the entire world.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Christoffer HeieShot by Trond T NderScored by Ginge AnvikDesigned by Merete Bostrom

Box Office

2019 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× 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

$3.0M

Budget$7.3M
Worldwide gross$3.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Espen und die Legende vom Goldenen Schlossde
  • The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castleen
  • En busca del Palacio Doradoes
  • Espen 2fr

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