Viva Maria! (1965)

Director: Louis Malle

1907 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

Maria I

Jeanne Moreau

Maria II

Paulette Dubost

Mrs. Diogène

Claudio Brook

The Great Rodolfo

Carlos López Moctezuma

Rodríguez

Poldo Bendandi

Werther

George Hamilton

Flores

Gregor von Rezzori

Diogène

Francisco Reiguera

Father Superior

Adriana Roel

Janine