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Released
1979 · FILM

The Human Factor

Every man in love is a potential traitor.

Directed by
Runtime
115 min
DramaRomanceThriller

Synopsis

When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.

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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 Richard TrevorShot by Mike MolloyScored by Gary Logan

Box Office

1979 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$376K

Budget$5.5M
Worldwide gross$376K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der menschliche Faktorde
  • El factor humanoes
  • La Guerre des otagesfr
  • Il fattore umanoit

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