Viva Maria!
– Traveling players invent the strip tease while mixed up in a Central American revolution...
Traveling players invent the strip tease while mixed up in a Central American revolution.
18 Dec 1965
French, English, Spanish, German
Louis Malle
Louis Malle (scenario and dialogue), Jean-Claude Carrière (scenario and dialogue)
Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton, Paulette Dubost
Somewhere in Central America in 1907: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a singer in a circus. She decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, she unintentionally invents the strip-tease and makes the circus famous. Then they accidentally meet a socialist revolutionary and find themselves leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists and the Church.
Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 nominations.
United Artists