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Viva Maria! is a 1965 French-Italian comedy, Western, and adventure film directed by Louis Malle. The screenplay was written by Malle and Jean-Claude Carrière, with music composed by Georges Delerue. The cast includes Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Paulette Dubost, and Claudio Brook. Henri Decaë served as the director of photography, and Suzanne Baron was the film editor.
The film was filmed in Mexico and its narrative is set in the Republic of Ireland. It was distributed by United Artists and Netflix, with additional companies including Les Productions Artistes Associés, Vides Cinematografica, and Nouvelles Éditions de Films. The runtime is listed as 120 minutes or 119 minutes. It has received a review score of 60% and an IMDb rating of 6.3 based on 4,157 votes. The film won one BAFTA Award out of three total nominations.
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6.11907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she meets Maria I, a performer, and decides to stay with the circus, and on her debut as a singer, unintentionally invents the striptease and makes the circus famous. Their inadvertent encounter with a socialist revolutionary lands them leading a revolution against the dictator, the capitalists, and the Church.
Cast
- Brigitte Bardot as Maria I
- Jeanne Moreau as Maria II
- Paulette Dubost as Mrs. Diogène
- Claudio Brook as The Great Rodolfo
- Carlos López Moctezuma as Rodríguez
- Poldo Bendandi as Werther
Themes
- circus
- revolution
- striptease
- artist
- spaghetti western
- amused
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Ratings
IMDb
6.3/10
4,157 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
60%
- Year
- 1965
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Comedy, Romance
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- Won 1 BAFTA Award1 win & 3 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- adventure film
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Original language
- French
- Director
- Louis Malle
- Screenwriter
- Louis Malle
- Composer
- Georges Delerue
- Cinematographer
- Henri Decaë
- Narrative location
- Republic of Ireland
- Filming location
- Mexico
- Duration
- 118
- FilmAffinity ID
- 565492
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1965-00-00
- title
- Viva Maria !
- film editor
- Suzanne Baron
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- Commons category
- Viva Maria !
- review score
- 60%
Sources (11)
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Gallery (6)
Available in 27 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 日本語
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- Belarusian
- Catalan
- Esperanto
- Haitian Creole
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Luxembourgish
- Macedonian
- Malay
- Nederlands
- Norwegian
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