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Released
2002 · FILM

The Four Feathers

A disgraced British officer, branded a coward by four white feathers, risks his life behind enemy lines in Sudan to redeem his honor and save the comrades who condemned him.

“Freedom. Country. Honor. Passion. To save his best friend, one man must risk everything he loves.”

Directed by
Shekhar Kapur
Written by
A E W Mason, Michael Schiffer
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
132 min
AdventureDramaRomance

Synopsis

A young British officer resigns his commission upon discovering that his regiment is to be deployed to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. In response, his friends and fiancée present him with four white feathers, representing what they perceive as his cowardice. Seeking to restore his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of his former comrades.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 26

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 Steven RosenblumShot by Robert RichardsonScored by James HornerDesigned by Allan Cameron

Box Office

2002 · 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

$29.9M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$29.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $18.3M — 61% of worldwide · International: $11.6M (39%)

Opening weekend: $6.9M — 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $8.8M — 48% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,912 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Vier Federnde
  • Las cuatro plumases
  • Frères du désertfr
  • Le quattro piumeit

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