Long live Maria! Monday November 4 at 8:55 p.m. on Arte

Rebroadcast

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Résumé

In 1907, in Central America, Maria, the daughter of an Irish anarchist, was wanted by the English police for having planted bombs. She hides in the caravan of an artist from a traveling Music hall troupe, also named Maria. The latter offers to replace his partner Janine, who has just committed suicide following a heartbreak. Soon, the two young women find themselves involved in a peasant revolution led by Flores, an ardent young man with whom both fall in love, one openly, the other in secret…

Casting

Brigitte Bardot (Maria I), Jeanne Moreau (Maria II), George Hamilton (Florès), Gregor von Rezzori (Diogenes), Paulette Dubost (Madame Diogenes), Claudio Brook (Rodolfo), Carlos López Moctezuma (Don Rodriguez), Poldo Bendandi (Werther), Francisco Reiguera (the superior father), Jonathan Eden (Juanito Diogene), Roberto Pedret (Pablo), José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla' (the dictator of San Miguel), Louis Malle (Director), Jean-Claude Carrière ( Screenwriter), Georges Delerue (Music)