🎬 Contempt (1963)

Jack Palance (born Volodymyr Palahniuk; February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American actor. Known for playing tough guys and villains, he was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, receiving nominations for his roles in Sudden Fear (1952) and Shane (1953) and winning alm…

Brigitte Bardot is a French actress who became one of the most recognizable film stars of the 1950s and 60s. She is known for her role in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris (1963), alongside Jack Palance and Michel Piccoli. She later left acting to focus on animal rights activism.

Michel Piccoli was a French actor whose career spanned more than six decades. He worked with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Luis Buñuel and Claude Sautet. In "Le Mépris" (Contempt, 1963) he plays the screenwriter Paul Javal, whose marriage slowly falls apart.

Giorgia Moll (14 January 1938 — 2 June 2026) was an Italian actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Giorgia Moll, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Fritz Lang was an Austrian-American film director best known for expressionist works such as Metropolis (1927) and M (1931). He fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and built a second career in Hollywood. In Jean-Luc Godard's film Contempt (1963) he appears as himself, playing a director caught in a troubled production.

Raoul Coutard was a French cinematographer best known for his work with Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut during the French New Wave. His handheld camera style and naturalistic lighting shaped films like À bout de souffle and Le Mépris, the film known in English as Contempt.