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Released
1990 · FILM

The Old Man and the Sea

Directed by
Runtime
93 min
ActionDramaTV Movie
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway, Santiago embarks on his regular fishing excursion and lands an enormous catch, the largest of his life. Soon after, a shark attacks, attempting to take his prize.

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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 Fredric SteinkampShot by Tony ImiScored by Bruce BroughtonDesigned by Malcolm Middleton

Also known as

  • Der alte Mann und das Meerde
  • El viejo y el mares
  • Le Vieil Homme et la Merfr

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