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#6,409 All-time worldwide
#190 2017 releases

Movie profile

Unknown Soldier

2017 · 179 min · Scope Pictures

War Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $15.6M
Budget $8.0M
Gross minus budget $7.6M
ROI 1.94x

Domestic gross

$7.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$7.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Unknown Soldier 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 #6,409 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2017 releases #190 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2017. Studio / company #2 Scope Pictures of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Scope Pictures movie set. Primary genre #241 War of 483 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 Unknown Soldier (2017) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Unknown Soldier (2017) earned a reported $15.6M worldwide against a reported $8.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $7.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.94x. In this database it currently ranks #6,409 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #190 among 2017 releases.

Worldwide gross
$15,550,000
Budget
$8,000,000
Gross minus budget
$7,550,000
ROI
1.94x
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

The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 27, 2017
Production
SCOPE Pictures, Elokuvaosakeyhtiö Suomi 2017, Kvikmyndafélag Íslands
Countries
IS, FI, BE

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2017, Unknown Soldier is positioned in this dataset as a War, Drama title from SCOPE Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $15.6M, reported production budget is $8.0M, gross-minus-budget is $7.6M, ROI is 1.94x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,409 all-time in the current chart set and #190 among 2017 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.