🎬 Contempt (1963)

Jean-Luc Godard was a French-Swiss film director and a central figure of the French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague). He became known for groundbreaking works such as Breathless (1960) and A Woman Is a Woman (1961), which playfully subverted classical cinema conventions. He died in 2022.

Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was an Austrian-German film director, one of the most influential figures in silent cinema and film noir. His silent science-fiction epic Metropolis (1927) is regarded as a landmark of world cinema. He later emigrated to the United States, where he directed numerous classic thrillers and noir fi…

Brigitte Bardot is a French actress and model who became an icon of French cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. She rose to international fame with the film And God Created Woman (1956), directed by Roger Vadim. After retiring from acting, she became a prominent animal rights activist.

Michel Piccoli was a French actor whose career spanned more than six decades. He worked closely with directors like Luis Buñuel and Jean-Luc Godard, appearing in Buñuel's The Phantom of Liberty (1974) in a key role. He remains one of the defining faces of European art cinema.

Giorgia Moll is an Italian actress best known for her role as Camille in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris (1963), alongside Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli. She appeared in a number of Italian genre films during the 1950s and 1960s.

Raoul Coutard (1924-2016) was a French cinematographer closely associated with the French New Wave. His long collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard produced films including À bout de souffle and Le Mépris (1963). He was known for his use of natural light and handheld camera work, which helped define the visual language of…