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Released
1984 · FILM

The Devil Sings

“Alshaytan yughni”

Directed by
Yassin Ismail Yassin
Written by
Yassin Ismail Yassin
Runtime
110 min
Language
AR
DramaThriller

Synopsis

Asim is a novelist who is busy writing a new novel at the urging of the publisher. Imad is chasing him and deluding him that he derives his ideas from him, and that there is a hidden force between them that transmits his ideas to Asim Lutfi’s mind, causing him to suffer a psychological condition that stops him from writing, he travels to Alexandria to complete the story, Imad contacts him and provides him with some evidence that proves the mental telepathy between them, which confirms that Emad is the author of all works published by Issam and were the reason for his fame.

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Principal cast & crew: 11

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.

Box Office

1984 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.8× 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

$1.3M

Budget$270K
Worldwide gross$1.3M
break-even (2.5×)

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