Heart of Glass (1976)
Directed by Werner Herzog · Cinematography by Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
94 min52 frames
Drama
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Heart of Glass — official trailer
What is Heart of Glass about?
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.
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What does the cinematography of Heart of Glass look like?
Sampled across 52 frames, the coverage of Heart of Glass leans on medium shots (46% of the sample) and wide compositions (29%). Cinematographer Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein keeps 63% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 65% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 58% of the frames.
What is the color palette of Heart of Glass?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Heart of Glass (1976) are #31302e, #151210, #51514b, #8a8d8a, #b0b1ac, #71716d — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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