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Released
1969 · FILM

Topaz

A French intelligence officer must expose a high‑ranking Soviet defector and dismantle an international spy ring before the Cuban Missile Crisis erupts, all while protecting his family from becoming pawns in the deadly Cold War game.

Hitchcock takes you behind the actual headlines to expose the most explosive spy scandal of this century!

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Runtime
127 min
DramaThriller

Synopsis

In 1962, in Copenhagen, Denmark, a high-ranking Soviet official decides to defect, drawing a French intelligence agent into a tense and deadly spy conflict where his own family will become a key factor.

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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 William H ZieglerShot by Jack HildyardScored by Maurice JarreDesigned by Henry Bumstead

Box Office

1969 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.5× 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

$6.0M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$6.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Topasde
  • L'Étaufr

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