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Released
2011 · FILM

The Turin Horse

A stoic farmer and his young daughter cling to their austere daily rituals while an unrelenting, wind‑swept desolation gnaws at their fragile existence, forcing them toward the brink of utter emptiness.

Directed by
Bela Tarr
Written by
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Friedrich Nietzsche
Color
Black & White
Runtime
155 min
Language
HU
Drama

Synopsis

The film portrays the repetitive daily life of a father and daughter in a bleak, windblown environment. Over the course of six days, their routine of consuming boiled potatoes and caring for a dying horse begins to fall apart, representing a gradual move toward despair, nothingness, and the conclusion of life.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

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 Agnes HranitzkyShot by Fred KelemenScored by Mihaly VigDesigned by Laszlo Rajk

Box Office

2011 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× 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

$162K

Budget$1.0M
Worldwide gross$162K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Das Turiner Pferdde
  • The Turin Horsede
  • The Turin Horseen
  • El caballo de Turínes
  • Le Cheval de Turinfr
  • Il cavallo di Torinoit

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