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#7,293 All-time worldwide
#217 2009 releases

Movie profile

The White Ribbon

2009 · 144 min · Lucky Red

Drama Mystery
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $11.7M
Budget $21.6M
Gross minus budget -$9.9M
ROI 0.54x

Domestic gross

$5.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The White Ribbon ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #7,293 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2009 releases #217 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2009. Studio / company #1 Lucky Red of 3 titles Position inside the mapped Lucky Red movie set. Primary genre #3,036 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did The White Ribbon (2009) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The White Ribbon (2009) earned a reported $11.7M worldwide against a reported $21.6M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$9.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.54x. In this database it currently ranks #7,293 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #217 among 2009 releases.

Worldwide gross
$11,652,157
Budget
$21,555,450
Gross minus budget
-$9,903,293
ROI
0.54x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 24, 2009
Production
Lucky Red, Wega Film, Les Films du Losange
Countries
IT, DE, AT, FR

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyLucky Red Release year chart2009 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartMystery

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2009, The White Ribbon is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Mystery title from Lucky Red. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $11.7M, reported production budget is $21.6M, gross-minus-budget is -$9.9M, ROI is 0.54x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,293 all-time in the current chart set and #217 among 2009 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.