Where should dramaturgs be listed?

It might also be considered that the people who entered the credits may not have a good understanding of the term, which is very specific to theater, not movies, and somewhat rare.

In French, "dramaturge" is another word for playwright. so it fits perfectly with the writers credits.
Could you share the title where you saw it?

Especially in Europe there can be ”dramaturge” (or similar) credits also in TV/movies. There are 7,958 ”dramaturge” credits already in the Writing-section, so I wouldn’t call it a rare occupation. If the actual credit says ”dramaturge” (or similar), I also wouldn’t translate it to ”playwright”.


Older programs can use slightly ”older” occupation descriptions. It’s not up to us to ”change” or ”translate” them to something else.

Sometimes these can be defined more broadly (whether it’s theatre, tv, movie etc):

”Dramaturgy may also be defined, more broadly, as shaping a story into a form that may be acted.”

You see all the ”existing” occupations listed by clicking the ”arrow” (not sure what to call it to be honest) near the box where you write/choose the Attribute for occupation. Then choose the letter etc. For example, here are the occupations for Writing-section:

https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/f...


I see no reason to move these Rare Export credits and I doubt IMDb will move them. If they’re listed as ”dramaturge” (or similar) in the actual credits, they belong to the Writing-section. These are the persons who were shaping the story/screenplay (but did not do any real writing - at least enough to be credited as ”writers”). You can’t ”translate” dramaturge to something else (like a story editor, playwright or whatnot). We don’t invent the occupations, they’re already listed in the credits.

I just watched the same movie. Got here doing a Bing Search for "movie crew, dramaturg" - and that is the spelling used when they rolled credits.  I'm about to drop this on a mate of mine who's a retired key grip.  See what he says.

I think the movie sets itself up for a sequel, BTW.  We never did get to see "bad Santa" in action after all.

Title presented as Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale...and Rare Exports reads more like a credit to the production company.  Not so old, either.  Entered in Film Festivals in 2010.