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Released
2005 · FILM

The White Massai

Directed by
Hermine Huntgeburth
Written by
Corinne Hofmann, Johannes W Betz
Runtime
131 min
Language
DE
DramaRomance

Synopsis

Carola travels to Kenya on vacation, where she becomes infatuated with a Maasai man and decides to leave her boyfriend to live with him. She must adapt to the Maasai way of life, including their diet of milk mixed with blood, and confront the husband's attitudes toward women and his expectations of a wife. Despite these challenges, Carola is warmly welcomed into the tribe she chooses to join.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Eva SchnareShot by Martin LangerScored by Niki ReiserDesigned by Susann Bieling

Box Office

2005 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.2× 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

$22.6M

Budget$7.0M
Worldwide gross$22.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die weisse Maasaide
  • The White Masaien
  • La Masai Blancaes
  • La Massaï blanchefr
  • Masai biancait

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