Charles L. Bitsch

Charles L. Bitsch

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.

  • Title: Charles L. Bitsch
  • Popularity: 0.2092
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1931-04-23
  • Place of Birth: Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France
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  • Also Known As: Charles Bitsch, Charles Bitch
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Charles L. Bitsch Movies

  • 1967
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    La Chinoise

    La Chinoise

    6.9 1967 HD

    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.

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  • 2007
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    Godard, Love and Poetry

    Godard, Love and Poetry

    7.3 2007 HD

    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"

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  • 1959
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    The 400 Blows

    The 400 Blows

    8.024 1959 HD

    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.

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  • 2009
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    Once Upon a Time… Contempt

    Once Upon a Time… Contempt

    8 2009 HD

    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.

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  • 2003
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    The Outskirts of Alphaville

    The Outskirts of Alphaville

    1 2003 HD

    Making of Jean Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)

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  • 1956
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    The Kreutzer Sonata

    The Kreutzer Sonata

    6.1 1956 HD

    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.

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  • 1960
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    The Good Girls

    The Good Girls

    6.225 1960 HD

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

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  • 1990
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    Le Bonheur des autres

    Le Bonheur des autres

    1 1990 HD

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  • 1962
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    The Seven Deadly Sins

    The Seven Deadly Sins

    5.6 1962 HD

    Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.

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  • 1969
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    Love and Anger

    Love and Anger

    5.1 1969 HD

    Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.

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  • 1966
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    M.M.M. 83

    M.M.M. 83

    3.8 1966 HD

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

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  • 1963
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    Contempt

    Contempt

    7.1 1963 HD

    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.

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  • 1963
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    Bluebeard

    Bluebeard

    6.325 1963 HD

    Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.

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  • 1965
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    Alphaville

    Alphaville

    6.9 1965 HD

    Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”

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  • 1967
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    Made in U.S.A

    Made in U.S.A

    6.122 1967 HD

    Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis, a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.

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  • 1962
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    Vivre Sa Vie

    Vivre Sa Vie

    7.7 1962 HD

    Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

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  • 1963
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    Ro.Go.Pa.G.

    Ro.Go.Pa.G.

    7.2 1963 HD

    Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.

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  • 1964
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    Chance at Love

    Chance at Love

    5.8 1964 HD

    Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.

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  • 1967
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    La Chinoise

    La Chinoise

    6.9 1967 HD

    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.

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  • 1963
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    The Carabineers

    The Carabineers

    6.5 1963 HD

    During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.

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  • 1967
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    The Oldest Profession

    The Oldest Profession

    4.9 1967 HD

    A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

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  • 1962
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    Le Doulos

    Le Doulos

    7.4 1962 HD

    Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?

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  • 1969
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    The Last Man

    The Last Man

    1 1969 HD

    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.

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  • 1967
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    Far from Vietnam

    Far from Vietnam

    7 1967 HD

    In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.

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  • 1967
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    2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

    2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

    6.239 1967 HD

    As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.

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  • 1961
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    Paris Belongs to Us

    Paris Belongs to Us

    6.5 1961 HD

    A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.

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  • 1956
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    Fool’s Mate

    Fool’s Mate

    6.4 1956 HD

    Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?

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  • 1956
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    Fool’s Mate

    Fool’s Mate

    6.4 1956 HD

    Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?

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  • 1964
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    Chance at Love

    Chance at Love

    5.8 1964 HD

    Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.

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  • 1964
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    Les baisers

    Les baisers

    1 1964 HD

    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.

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  • 1969
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    The Last Man

    The Last Man

    1 1969 HD

    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.

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  • 1959
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    Véronique and Her Dunce

    Véronique and Her Dunce

    6 1959 HD

    Véronique gives a mathematics lesson to a dunce who answers the prepared questions with disconcertingly sound answers.

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  • 1952
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    The Diversion

    The Diversion

    6 1952 HD

    Paris rendered as a labyrinth of intrigues. Filmed in Parisian parks and on a terrace, LE DIVERTISSEMENT foreshadows the labyrinthine walks that would be a part of Rivette’s cinema, in which the characters look for, follow and find each other like in a romantic scavenger hunt.

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  • 1962
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    Love at Twenty

    Love at Twenty

    6.7 1962 HD

    Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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  • 1959
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    Two Men in Manhattan

    Two Men in Manhattan

    6.3 1959 HD

    Two French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.

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  • 1959
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    Two Men in Manhattan

    Two Men in Manhattan

    6.3 1959 HD

    Two French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.

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  • 1960
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    The Good Girls

    The Good Girls

    6.225 1960 HD

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

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  • 1953
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    Three Dates

    Three Dates

    7.3 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    Three Dates

    Three Dates

    7.3 1953 HD

    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...

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