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Released
2008 · FILM

Waltz with Bashir

A haunted Israeli veteran turns to his former comrades to piece together fragmented memories of the 1982 Lebanon War, racing against his own denial before the truth of the battlefield’s horrors consumes him.

One man's journey to uncover his past.

Directed by
Written by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
90 min
Language
HE
AnimationBiographyDocumentary

Synopsis

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 13

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 Nili FellerScored by Max Richter

Box Office

2008 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 7.5× 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

$11.2M

Budget$1.5M
Worldwide gross$11.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $4K

Peak 3 theaters

Also known as

  • Vals Im Bashirde
  • ואלס עם באשירde
  • Vals con Bashires
  • Valse avec Bachirfr
  • Valzer con Bashirit

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