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Released
2017 · FILM

The Ottoman Lieutenant

American nurse Lillie joins a remote Ottoman field hospital hoping to heal the wounded, but as she falls for a charismatic lieutenant on the brink of war, she must choose between her duty, her heart, and survival.

“In a land on the brink of war the most dangerous place to be is in love.”

Directed by
Joseph Ruben
Written by
Jeff Stockwell
Runtime
111 min
DramaHistoryWar

Synopsis

Lillie, an American woman, travels to the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) to join Dr. Jude at a remote medical mission. She becomes conflicted as she grows at odds with Jude and the mission's founder, Woodruff, after falling in love with the titular military figure, Ismail, just as war is on the verge of breaking out.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

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 Nick MooreShot by Daniel AranyoScored by Geoff ZanelliDesigned by Luca Tranchino

Box Office

2017 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× 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

$414K

Budget$40.0M
Worldwide gross$414K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $219K

Peak 216 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Offizier: Liebe in Zeiten des Kriegesde
  • El teniente otomanoes
  • Le Lieutenant ottomanfr
  • Il tenente ottomanoit

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