I Am Cuba (1964) colour palette

Directed by Mikheil Kalatozishvili · Shot by Sergei Urusevsky

#030303near black · 19.1%
#8b8b8bmid grey · 15.3%
#494949dark grey · 12.8%
#2f2f2fdark grey · 12.2%
#6e6e6emid grey · 10.9%
#cacacalight grey · 10.9%

I Am Cuba (1964), shot by Sergei Urusevsky, is monochrome: across 64 sampled frames the palette carries effectively no colour, so its look is built from mid-key tonal range rather than hue. The single most common colour is near black (#030303), covering 19.1% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Colour

Monochrome

below 0.05 mean saturation

Saturation

monochrome

0 — more saturated than 0% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.44 — brighter than 70% of ranked films

Measured across 64 frames. See the frames on the I Am Cuba page →

Films that grade like this

Nearest by warmth, saturation and luminance across 1,568 ranked films — measured, not matched on genre.

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1956 · Stanley Kubrick

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To Kill A Mockingbird

1962 · Robert Mulligan

Strangers on a Train

1951 · Alfred Hitchcock

The Seventh Seal

1957 · Ingmar Bergman

Double Indemnity

1944 · Billy Wilder

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