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Released
1991 · FILM

Until the End of the World

A woman fleeing with two bank robbers across Europe becomes entangled with a fugitive doctor and a mysterious dream-recording device, as they all race against time—and the CIA—to escape a world on the brink of transformation.

“. . . the ultimate road movie”

Directed by
Wim Wenders
Written by
Peter Carey, Wim Wenders
Runtime
158 min
Language
DE
ActionDramaSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

In 1999, a woman's life is dramatically altered after surviving a car crash with two bank robbers, who then ask for her help to deliver the stolen money to a drop point in Paris. During the journey, she encounters another fugitive — an American doctor evading the CIA. The agency seeks to seize his father's invention, a device capable of recording dreams and visions.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Peter PrzygoddaShot by Robby MullerScored by Graeme RevellDesigned by Thierry Flamand

Box Office

1991 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× 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

$753K

Budget$23.0M
Worldwide gross$753K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $39K — 5% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $98K — 12% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4 theaters

Also known as

  • Until the End of the Worlden
  • Hasta el fin del mundoes
  • Jusqu'au bout du mondefr
  • Fino alla fine del mondoit

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