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Released
2009 · FILM

The Crocodiles

Directed by
Christian Ditter
Written by
Christian Ditter, Martin Ritzenhoff
Runtime
98 min
Language
DE
AdventureFamily

Synopsis

Ten-year-old Hannes, growing up with his young, poor and single mother wants to join the coolest gang in the area, the Vorstadtkrokodile. When the ‘entry test’ goes wrong, Hannes’s life is saved by Kai, who is desperate to join too but is wheelchair bound and unable to even run away when things get hot. Hannes would accept Kai but the other gang members don’t seem happy to accept a handicapped member...

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Ueli ChristenShot by Christian ReinScored by Heiko MaileDesigned by Eva Stiebler

Box Office

2009 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× 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

$4.6M

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$4.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Vorstadt Krokodilede
  • The Crocodilesen
  • Los cocodriloses
  • Le Club des crocodilesfr
  • Les Crocodilesfr
  • La banda dei coccodrilliit

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