Directing

Charles L. Bitsch

Born 1931-04-23 · Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France

Charles L. Bitsch was a French film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer associated with the French New Wave. Born in Mulhouse, he studied at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). Bitsch began his career as a cinematographer, working on short films like Le Coup du berger (1956). He served as an assistant director for prominent filmmakers, including Claude Chabrol on Le Beau Serge (1958) and Jean-Luc Godard on Le Mépris (1963). Bitsch directed films such as Les Baisers (1964) and La Chance et l'amour (1964). His work is noted for its stylistic innovation and contribution to the French New Wave movement.

Acting credits

The 400 Blows poster
8.0

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.

The 400 Blows

1959

La Chinoise poster
6.9

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

La Chinoise

1967

Godard, Love and Poetry poster
7.3

Documentary about director Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. In 1960, Jean-Luc Godard films for the first time Anna Karina and falls in love. His cinema is transformed by it forever. Spanned from "Little Soldier" to "Crazy Pete" through "A Woman is a Woman", "My Life to Live" andd "Alphaville", this documentary tells how, during five years , Godard and Karina consciously mixed cinema and private life, with constant will to film "as in true life" and to live "as in film"

Godard, Love and Poetry

2007

Les Bonnes Femmes poster
6.3

Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams.

Les Bonnes Femmes

1960

No artwork available
NR

Making of Jean Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)

The Outskirts of Alphaville

2003

The Kreutzer Sonata poster
6.1

Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of physical love. When a violinist with whom his wife plays regularly the “Sonata to Kreutzer” appears, the young woman blooms in a new passion. From then on, her husband is eaten away by jealousy.

The Kreutzer Sonata

1956

Once Upon a Time… Contempt poster
8.0

Fourty-six years since the release of Le mépris, Jean-Luc Godard watches the film again to comment on it and its tumultuous production. Featuring interviews with: Jacques Rozier, Alain Bergala, Michel Piccoli, Charles Bitsch.

Once Upon a Time… Contempt

2009

Behind the camera

Les baisers poster
5.5

A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors with a commercial draw, allowed five new young directors to each have a crack at an episode about romance.

Les baisers

1964

Chance at Love poster
5.6

Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.

Chance at Love

1964

Chance at Love poster
5.6

Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.

Chance at Love

1964

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Bonheur des autres

1990

Fool’s Mate poster
6.6

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean. Claire meets her lover, Claude, at his apartment, where he gifts her a fur coat. Now Claire needs to figure out how to return home with this expensive gift without the affair being found out.

Fool’s Mate

1956

Three Dates poster
6.8

Two men are in love with the same woman. One of them, feeling rejected, attempts suicide. The young woman finally decides to choose a third man. When they recount their affair, none of them gives the same version of events...

Three Dates

1953

Three Dates poster
6.8

Two men are in love with the same woman. One of them, feeling rejected, attempts suicide. The young woman finally decides to choose a third man. When they recount their affair, none of them gives the same version of events...

Three Dates

1953

M.M.M. 83 poster
4.6

A secret agent works with a scientist to recover documents outlining a new formula to make fuel.

M.M.M. 83

1966

The Last Man poster
7.0

On their return from a mission, three cavers- Jean-Claude, his wife Catherine and Eva - find themselves the only people left alive on earth. A chemical war has caused the death of the population and animals. The trio organize to survive. Jean-Claude and Eva die after coming into contact with corpses. Catherine, who is pregnant, escapes contamination and gives birth to a boy.

The Last Man

1969

The Last Man poster
7.0

On their return from a mission, three cavers- Jean-Claude, his wife Catherine and Eva - find themselves the only people left alive on earth. A chemical war has caused the death of the population and animals. The trio organize to survive. Jean-Claude and Eva die after coming into contact with corpses. Catherine, who is pregnant, escapes contamination and gives birth to a boy.

The Last Man

1969