Viva Maria!

Director

Louis Malle

Runtime

122 min

Release date

22 November 1965

Country

France

Language

French

Genres

Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Western

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.