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Released
2008 · FILM

The Visitor

Directed by
J P Valkeapaa
Written by
Jan Forsstrom, J P Valkeapaa
Runtime
105 min
Language
FI
Drama

Synopsis

A young boy lives with his mother on a farm surrounded by deep forest in the remote wilds of the Finnish countryside. From time to time, the boy visits his father - a man of great violence - in prison. Locked in the stable is an unruly horse, the boy´s only other companion. Their simple life is disrupted when a stranger appears, with a note from the father and a bullet in his side. Reluctantly, mother and son offer the stranger refuge.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

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 Mervi JunkkonenShot by Tuomo HutriScored by Helena TulveDesigned by Kaisa Makinen

Box Office

2008 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.5× 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

$18.2M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$18.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $117K

Peak 4 theaters

Re-release box office

20253 theaters
$18K($19K today)

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

Also known as

  • Der Besucherde
  • The Visitorde
  • The Visitoren
  • Le Visiteurfr

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