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Released
1936 · FILM

They Were Five

Directed by
Runtime
101 min
Language
FR
Drama
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.

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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 Marthe PoncinShot by Marc FossardScored by Maurice Yvain

Also known as

  • Zünftige Bandede
  • Amor intrusoes
  • La Belle Équipefr
  • La bella brigatait

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