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Released
2013 · FILM

The Numbers Station

A burned‑out CIA black‑ops operative on his final assignment must guard a young code announcer and the secret numbers station she runs, only to have an ambush turn the job into a deadly fight for survival.

“The code has never been compromised. Until now.”

Directed by
Kasper Barfoed
Written by
F Scott Frazier
Runtime
90 min
ActionThriller

Synopsis

A longtime black ops agent specializing in covert operations finds his moral values challenged during his final mission, leading to an unfavorable psychological evaluation. As a result, he is given a brief respite and assigned what appears to be a straightforward task: to protect a young female code announcer, secure code resources, and safeguard the remote station where they are stationed. However, after an ambush and a single phone call, the mission quickly escalates into a complex and dangerous struggle for their survival.

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Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Chris GillShot by Ottar Gu NasonScored by Paul Leonard MorganDesigned by Ged Clarke

Box Office

2013 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$3.1M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$3.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Numbers Stationde
  • Código de defensaes
  • Code ennemifr
  • Codice fantasmait

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