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Released
2005 · FILM

The Lost City

A place you leave is a place that lives forever.

Directed by
Runtime
144 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

In the late 1950s in Havana, Cuba, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, becomes entangled in the violent political transition from the regime of Fulgencio Batista to the Marxist government led by Fidel Castro. As the new regime takes hold, the nightclub owner is forced to flee the country and eventually settles in New York.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Christopher CibelliShot by Emmanuel KadoshScored by Andy GarciaDesigned by Waldemar Kalinowski

Box Office

2005 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× 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

$4.4M

Budget$9.6M
Worldwide gross$4.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Adieu Cubafr

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