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Released
2013 · FILM

The German Doctor

“Nothing is more mysterious than the blood”

Directed by
Lucia Puenzo
Written by
Lucia Puenzo
Runtime
90 min
Language
ES
DramaThriller
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Set in Patagonia in 1960, the story follows a German doctor who encounters an Argentinean family and accompanies them to a town where they are beginning a new life. The family warmly invites the doctor into their home and entrusts their young daughter to his care, unaware that he is one of the most dangerous criminals in the world.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Hugo PrimeroShot by Nicolas PuenzoScored by Andres Goldstein

Box Office

2013 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.8× 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

$3.6M

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$3.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der deutsche Arztde
  • The German Doctoren
  • Le Médecin de famillefr

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