[Python] Python IMDB / Cinemagoer library doesn't really work

I've long relied on an old IMDB python script to sort out my movie collection, but that stopped working recently. I don't know python but I'm trying to write a simple script to obtain basic info from imdb, using the updated successor to ImdbPy: Cinemagoer or CinemagoerNG but none of the examples really work and I'm nonplussed as to why.

For instance the example on page 7 here, slightly simplified below:

>>> from imdb import Cinemagoer
>>> ia = Cinemagoer()
>>> movie = ia.get_movie('0133093')
>>> movie
<Movie id:0133093[http] title:_The Matrix (1999)_>
>>> movie['directors']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/dargaud/.venvs/MyEnv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/imdb/utils.py", line 1503, in __getitem__
rawData = self.data[key]
~~~~~~~~~^^^^^
KeyError: 'directors'


Obviously the key here doesn't exist, and yet in their example it does. So what is going on ? Version difference ? I'm using it badly ? How do I get the list of directors of a movie in either Cinemagoer or CinemagoerNG ?

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