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Released
1966 · FILM

The Bible in the Beginning...

The unforgettable adventure of man from the creation!

Directed by
Runtime
175 min
DramaFamily

Synopsis

The film covers the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, presenting a series of vignettes. These include Adam and Eve's time in the Garden of Eden, their consumption of the forbidden fruit, and their subsequent expulsion; Cain's murder of his brother Abel; Noah's construction of an ark to save the world's animals from a great flood; and Abraham's covenant with God.

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How many hands made this film

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 Ralph KemplenShot by Giuseppe RotunnoScored by Toshiro Mayuzumi

Box Office

1966 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.1× 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

$34.9M

Budget$16.5M
Worldwide gross$34.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die Bibelde
  • The Bibleen
  • La Bibliaes
  • La Biblefr
  • La Bibbiait

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