Viva Maria!

The world will never forget the two heroines who charged into battle undaunted, unafraid, and… undressed!
Viva Maria! (1965)
Timing: 2:0 (120 min)
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$2 200 000
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Óscar Dancigers
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Kenout Peltier, Suzanne Baron
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Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

  • This film was the subject of two cases before the US Supreme Court, which ultimately led to the creation of the American Film Association's rating system. Upon the film's release in the United States, censorship in the city of Dallas, Texas, banned the film from being shown within the city limits based on its allegedly overtly racist nature. The film's distributor sued the censors (the court hearing took place on April 22, 1968) and won the case. The Supreme Court ruled that censorship could be applied to minors, but not to adults. On the same day, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in another case, stating that the age of majority for censorship purposes was 17 years old. This case involved a Sam Ginsberg, owner of a diner in New York, who sold a 16-year-old boy a copy of "Playbay" magazine. The Supreme Court ruled that, since the boy was already 17, Ginsberg had not committed any offense by selling him the magazine. As a result of these two rulings, the Supreme Court created a precedent stating that there is nothing wrong with a viewer under the age of 17 seeing adult films, provided they are accompanied by a parent or guardian.

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