Charles L. Bitsch

Charles Bitsch was a French cinematographer, assistant director, film critic, and film director. A member of the Cahiers du cinéma circle in the 1950s, he worked as cinematographer and assistant director on early films of the French New Wave, collaborating extensively with Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, and Jean-Pierre Melville. He directed one theatrical feature, the post-apocalyptic Le Dernier Homme (1969).