Dersu Uzala (1975)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa · Cinematography by Asakazu Nakai, Fyodor Dobronravov, Yuri Gantman
G142 min53 frames
AdventureDrama
There is man and beast at nature's mercy. There is awe and love and reverence. And there is the man called...
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A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
Dersu Uzala is a 1975 epic biographical film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa. Starring Maxim Munzuk and Yury Solomin, the film is based on the 1923 memoir by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, about his exploration of the Russian Far East over the course of multiple expeditions in the early 20th century. During his exploration, he forms a deep friendship with Dersu as the trapper helps him navigate through the taiga.
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Across 53 sampled frames, Dersu Uzala builds its coverage from wide compositions (40% of the sample), with medium shots (28%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Asakazu Nakai keeps 60% of it in soft, naturalistic light. 42% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 66% of the frames.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Dersu Uzala (1975) are #34322c, #28150f, #515350, #4a382c, #4e4738, #d7d7d6 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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