Viva Maria!
(1965)
Director:
Louis Malle
Writer:
Jean-Claude Carrière, Louis Malle
Cast:
Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Paulette Dubost
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.