The Threepenny Opera (1931)
Directed by G.W. Pabst · Cinematography by Fritz Arno Wagner
104 min47 frames
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What is The Threepenny Opera about?
The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.
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What does the cinematography of The Threepenny Opera look like?
Sampled across 47 frames, the coverage of The Threepenny Opera leans on medium shots (47% of the sample) and full-body frames (30%). Cinematographer Fritz Arno Wagner keeps 77% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 68% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 55% of the frames.
What is the color palette of The Threepenny Opera?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Threepenny Opera (1931) are #060606, #6a6a6a, #303030, #909090, #cdcdcd, #484848 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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