---
title: 'Contempt (1963)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jean-Luc Godard'
released: '1963-10-29'
runtime_minutes: 102
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'France'
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/contempt-1963'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057345/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Contempt (1963)

1963 · 102 min · Drama · France, Italy

Original title: Le Mépris

## Synopsis

Contempt is a 1963 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on Alberto Moravia's 1954 novel Il disprezzo. It follows a playwright, Paul Javal, whose marriage begins to fall apart during the troubled production of a film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. The film stars Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang, and Giorgia Moll.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jean-Luc Godard](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-luc-godard)
- **Screenplay:** [Jean-Luc Godard](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-luc-godard)
- **Director of Photography:** [Raoul Coutard](https://cinepixo.com/people/raoul-coutard)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Georges Delerue](https://cinepixo.com/people/georges-delerue)
- **Producer:** [Carlo Ponti](https://cinepixo.com/people/carlo-ponti), [Georges de Beauregard](https://cinepixo.com/people/georges-de-beauregard), [Joseph E. Levine](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-e-levine)
- **Editor:** [Agnès Guillemot](https://cinepixo.com/people/agnes-guillemot)

## Cast

- [Brigitte Bardot](https://cinepixo.com/people/brigitte-bardot)
- [Linda Veras](https://cinepixo.com/people/linda-veras)
- [Jack Palance](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-palance)
- [Jean-Luc Godard](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-luc-godard)
- [Michel Piccoli](https://cinepixo.com/people/michel-piccoli)
- [Fritz Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-lang)
- [Raoul Coutard](https://cinepixo.com/people/raoul-coutard)
- [Giorgia Moll](https://cinepixo.com/people/giorgia-moll)

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