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Russian Ark (2002) colour palette

Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov · Shot by Tilman Büttner

Russian Ark (2002), shot by Tilman Büttner, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 60 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#332f2c), covering 12.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.843 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.227 — more saturated than 38% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.42 — brighter than 54% of ranked films

Measured across 60 frames. See the frames on the Russian Ark page →

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