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Released
1970 · FILM

Zabriskie Point

An anthropology student building a desert community meets a fugitive rebel, and together they must outrun the law while igniting a passionate romance amid the stark beauty of Death Valley.

“How you get there depends on where you're at.”

Directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni
Written by
Michelangelo Antonioni, Franco Rossetti
Runtime
113 min
Drama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Daria, an anthropology student assisting a property developer in constructing a village in the Los Angeles desert, meets Mark, a dropout wanted by authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot. Their paths cross by chance in Death Valley, leading to an intense and unrestrained romantic relationship.

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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 Franco ArcalliShot by Alfio ContiniScored by Jerry GarciaDesigned by Dean Tavoularis

Box Office

1970 · 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

$1.0M

Budget$7.0M
Worldwide gross$1.0M
break-even (2.5×)

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