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Released
1975 · FILM

The Passenger

Disillusioned journalist David Locke seizes a dead stranger’s identity to finish his story, only to discover he’s impersonating an arms dealer and must outrun police and mercenaries while racing to expose the deadly conspiracy.

I used to be somebody else...but I traded him in.

Runtime
126 min
Language
IT
DramaThriller

Synopsis

David Locke is an American journalist who has been assigned to report on a conflict in northern Africa but struggles to make progress on his story. After discovering the body of a stranger who bears a strong resemblance to him, Locke takes on the dead man's identity. He soon learns that the man was an arms dealer, which thrusts Locke into perilous circumstances. With the help of a woman, Locke tries to evade both the police and criminals who are pursuing him.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Michelangelo AntonioniShot by Luciano Tovoli

Box Office

1975 · Box office

Grossed $769K worldwide

Worldwide gross

$769K

Worldwide gross$769K

Re-release box office

200618 theaters
$195K($319K today)
200524 theaters
$765K($1.3M today)
Total re-release
$960K

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • Beruf: Reporterde
  • The Passengeren
  • Profession : reporterfr

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