The American Soldier (1970)
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Cinematography by Dietrich Lohmann
80 min59 frames
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What is The American Soldier about?
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
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What does the cinematography of The American Soldier look like?
Sampled across 59 frames, the coverage of The American Soldier leans on medium shots (56% of the sample) and wide compositions (22%). Cinematographer Dietrich Lohmann keeps 39% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 53% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 63% of the frames.
What is the color palette of The American Soldier?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The American Soldier (1970) are #010101, #fdfdfd, #8a8a8a, #313131, #c9c9c9, #6f6f6f — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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