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Sami Frey

Sami Frey

5 films · 308 frames · top-billed in 3 · 19601974

Born 13 October 1937 · Paris, France

Sami Frey is a French actor of Algerian and Italian descent. Among the films he starred in are En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud (1993), in which he portrays French poet and playwright Antonin Artaud, and Bande à part (1964) by Jean-Luc Godard.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Sami Frey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 308 frames · top-billed in 3 · 19601974

  • Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres

How their films are shot

Measured across 308 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sami takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 5 films we hold, 56% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Sami takes.

Time of day

Day56%
Night32%
Interior12%

Lighting

Natural48%
Low key27%
High key20%
Chiaroscuro4%

Shot size

Medium50%
Closeup21%
Wide14%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level85%
High angle7%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral80%
Tense10%
Ominous4%
Lonely4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 308 frames from Sami Frey's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.