“More bold! More brazen! And much, much more Bardot!”
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.
Jean-Luc Godard
Carlo Ponti
Joseph E. Levine
Georges de Beauregard
Jean-Luc Godard
Raoul Coutard
Georges Delerue
Brigitte Bardot
Camille Javal
Michel Piccoli
Paul Javal
Jack Palance
Jeremy Prokosch
Giorgia Moll
Francesca Vanini
Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
Raoul Coutard
Cameraman
Jean-Luc Godard
Lang's Assistant Director
Linda Veras
Sirene
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Jack Palance is ideally cast here as the Hollywood producer ("Prokosch") who has commissioned the legendary director Fritz Lang to breathe a last breath of life into the once thriving peplum genre with an adaptation of Homer's "Odyssey". He sees the rushes, and aside from a little nymph swimming in ...
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