Contempt
  • Title: Contempt
  • Original Title: Le Mépris
  • Release Date: 29/10/1963
  • Tagline: More bold! More brazen! And much, much more Bardot!
  • Budget: $900,000.00
  • Duration:103 Min / 01:43
  • Country:FRIT
  • Genre:DramaRomance

About Film

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.

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