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Released
1976 · FILM

The Big Operator

Directed by
Runtime
100 min
Language
FR
ComedyCrime

Synopsis

The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.

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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 Marie Josephe YoyotteShot by Jean CollombScored by Georges DelerueDesigned by Walter Patriarca

Also known as

  • Der große Angeberde
  • Ein großer und ein kleiner Gaunerde
  • The Big Operatoren
  • El gran estafadores
  • Il genioit

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