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Stalker (1979) colour palette

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky · Shot by Aleksandr Knyazhinsky

Stalker (1979), shot by Aleksandr Knyazhinsky, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 60 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and green. The single most common colour is dark grey (#303029), covering 11% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.86 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.139 — more saturated than 7% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.398 — brighter than 40% of ranked films

Measured across 60 frames. See the frames on the Stalker page →

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