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Released
1987 · FILM

The Barbarians

“Warriors. Conquerors. Heroes.”

Directed by
Ruggero Deodato
Written by
Alberto Piferi, James R Silke
Runtime
87 min
ActionAdventureFantasy

Synopsis

Orphaned brothers Kutchek and Gore are adopted by a tribe led by Canary, who possesses a powerful jewel. The antagonist Kadar seeks both Canary and the jewel, launching an attack on the tribe that results in Canary's kidnapping, though the jewel remains out of his grasp. Kutchek and Gore are captured and taken to be trained as gladiators. Years later, they have grown to be very large. They escape and embark on a quest to recover the jewel and rescue Canary.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Eugenio AlabisoShot by Gianlorenzo BattagliaScored by Pino DonaggioDesigned by Giuseppe Mangano

Box Office

1987 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$800K

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$800K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die Barbarende
  • Los bárbaroses
  • Les Barbariansfr

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