The Russia House (1990)
Directed by Fred Schepisi · Cinematography by Ian Baker
R123 min222 frames
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Their love was as dangerous as the secrets they kept.
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What is The Russia House about?
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.
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What does the cinematography of The Russia House look like?
Across 200 sampled frames, The Russia House builds its coverage from medium shots (55% of the sample), with wide compositions (26%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Ian Baker keeps 84% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame.
What is the color palette of The Russia House?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Russia House (1990) are #33312e, #52514d, #d1cfcb, #91918c, #afafac, #777673 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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