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Released
1998 · FILM

The Celebration

When a charismatic patriarch’s 60th‑birthday celebration erupts into chaos, his outspoken eldest son must force the family to confront a buried secret before their fragile unity shatters forever.

“Every family has a secret.”

Written by
Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
101 min
Language
DA
Drama
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

A wealthy businessman's family comes together to celebrate his 60th birthday. As the evening unfolds, his eldest son delivers a speech that exposes a shocking secret, triggering a confrontation marked by truth and resistance among the family members.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 56+ credited

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 Valdis OskarsdottirShot by Anthony Dod MantleScored by Lars Bo Jensen

Box Office

1998 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.3× 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

$1.7M

Budget$1.3M
Worldwide gross$1.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $1.7M — 100% of worldwide · International: $2K (0%)

Also known as

  • Das Festde
  • Das Fest - Dogma Ide
  • The Celebrationen
  • La celebraciónes
  • Festen - Fête de famillefr

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