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.
Brigitte Bardot
as Camille Javal
Michel Piccoli
as Paul Javal
Jack Palance
as Jeremy Prokosch
Giorgia Moll
as Francesca Vanini
Fritz Lang
as Fritz Lang
Raoul Coutard
as Cameraman
Jean-Luc Godard
as Lang's Assistant Director
Linda Veras
as Sirene
CinemaSerf
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 ...