Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise 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 ...