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Released
2008 · FILM

Winter in Wartime

A determined 14-year-old in a war-torn Dutch village risks everything to join the resistance, clashing with his father, the mayor, as famine and fear threaten to tear their community apart.

A country occupied... A child's innocence lost.

Directed by
Runtime
103 min
Language
NL
DramaHistoryWar

Synopsis

During World War II, in the freezing winter of 1944–45, the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east in an attempt to provide for their families. Fourteen-year-old Michiel is eager to join the Dutch resistance, which causes dismay for his father, the mayor, who is working to prevent escalations in the village.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

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 Job Ter BurgShot by Guido Van GennepScored by Pino DonaggioDesigned by Floris Vos

Box Office

2008 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× 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

$530K

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$530K
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

201126 theaters
$900K($1.3M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • Mein Kriegswinterde
  • Winter in Wartimede
  • Winter in Wartimeen
  • Un invierno en tiempos de guerraes

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