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Released
1984 · FILM

The Little Drummer Girl

She will become their most deadly weapon. As long as they can make her fall in love.

Directed by
Runtime
130 min
Drama

Synopsis

An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 William ReynoldsShot by Wolfgang TreuScored by Dave GrusinDesigned by Henry Bumstead

Box Office

1984 · Box office

Grossed $7.8M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$7.8M

Worldwide gross$7.8M

Opening weekend: $2.6M 34% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $3.5M45% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 820 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Libellede
  • La chica del tambores
  • La Petite Fille au tambourfr
  • La tamburinait

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