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From The East (1993)

Directed by Chantal Akerman · Cinematography by Bernard Delville, Rémon Fromont

107 min44 frames

Documentary

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From The East (1993) movie still: wide — A rural dirt path winds through a quiet village with weathered fences and power lines. A man sits in a…From The East (1993) movie still: medium — A woman plays a large wooden cello inside a darkened performance space. An organ pipe structure is…From The East (1993) movie still: fullbody — A group of people waits at a bleak bus stop in the blue evening light. The structure is a simple…From The East (1993) movie still: establishing — A dark multistory apartment block fills the frame with a few illuminated windows. A street with…From The East (1993) movie still: wide — A snow-covered street in front of a multi-story building at night. Several blurry figures move along the…From The East (1993) movie still: establishing — A dark multi-story building at night with lit windows and a red neon sign. Snow falls between the…From The East (1993) movie still: wide — A rural dirt road passes through an expansive, golden wheat field under a pale sky. A man steers a cart…From The East (1993) movie still: wide — A vast, flat, brown dirt field stretches under an overcast, light gray sky. Several women wearing…From The East (1993) movie still: wide — A tall, rusted metal monument stands beside a gray paved road under heavy clouds. A line of military trucks…From The East (1993) movie still: medium — Commuters wait against a pale, tiled wall in a dimly lit, utilitarian public space. Several people are…From The East (1993) movie still: establishing — A white-framed window looks out onto a grassy meadow with scattered trees. The interior space…From The East (1993) movie still: wide — A rural roadside scene features an outdoor cafe seating area and a single car. A Warsteiner beer sign hangs…From The East (1993) movie still: medium — A woman sits in a room with light curtains filtering sunlight behind her. She sits on a bright green…From The East (1993) movie still: fullbody — A red brick wall with two windows serves as a background for a sidewalk. Three people walk past the…From The East (1993) movie still: fullbody — A snowy, grey urban landscape features distant construction cranes against an overcast sky. Three young…From The East (1993) movie still: medium — A domestic space with floral wallpaper features a television and wooden furniture. A woman sits on a…
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What is From The East about?

In this incisive dispatch from the newly collapsed Soviet empire, bullet holes from WWII still pockmark the old stone buildings. Akerman journeys from East Germany to Moscow between the late summer and winter of 1993 ('while there’s still time'), chronicling in deliberate tracking shots, circular pans, and domestic tableaux yet another moment of radical upheaval in the 20th-century, the faces and bodies of Poles, Ukrainians, Germans, and Russians weighed down with obedient resignation and uncertainty.

Where can you watch From The East?

US availability for From The East (1993). Data by JustWatch, listings on TMDB. Availability changes — check the provider for current listings.

Who stars in From The East?

  • Natalia Chakhovskaiaas Self

Who made From The East?

What does the cinematography of From The East look like?

Sampled across 44 frames, the coverage of From The East leans on wide compositions (43% of the sample) and medium shots (27%). Cinematographer Bernard Delville keeps 64% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Night and dusk account for 41% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame, over a texture recalling 16mm. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 80% of the frames.

What is the color palette of From The East?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of From The East (1993) are #33332d, #4e524d, #aeaa96, #cfd1cc, #6a766c, #d1cab0 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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  • #aeaa96
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  • #6a766c
  • #d1cab0

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