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Barbarella (Original title)
Date: 1968 (Copyright)

Countries: Italy, France

Directed by: Roger Vadim

Production company billing: ©1968. Marianne Productions. a Dino De Laurentiis production a Franco-Italo co-production by Marianne Productions S.A. - Paris, Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica S.P.A., Rome
Synopsis: Adventures of an astronaut searching for a space explorer who has disappeared, in the year 40,000 AD.

Genres:
Action and Adventure, Science Fiction

Subjects:
Societies of the future, Astronauts
Credits (52)
©/Production Company: Marianne Productions S.A., Production Company: Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica (Rome), Produced by: Dino De Laurentiis, [Production Manager]: Roberto Cocco, Production Supervisor: Guy Luongo, 2nd Unit Director: Alberto Cardone, Assistant Director (1st): Carlo Lastricati, Script Continuity: Suzanne Durrenberger, Screenplay by: Terry Southern, Roger Vadim, [Screenplay] In Collaboration with: Claude Brûlé, [Screenplay] In Collaboration with: Vittorio Bonicelli, [Screenplay] In Collaboration with: Clement Biddle Wood, [Screenplay] In Collaboration with: Brian Degas, [Screenplay] In Collaboration with: Tudor Gates, Jean Claude Forest, From the best seller "Barbarella" by: Jean Claude Forest, Director of Photography: Claude Renoir, 2nd Unit Cameraman: Vladimir Ivanov, [Stills]: Alfonso Avincola, Special Effects Supervisor: August Lohman, Special Animation Effects: Gérard Cogan, Thierry Vincens-Fargo, Editor: Victoria Mercanton, [Editor]: Peter Taylor, Production Designer: Mario Garbuglia, Artistic Consultant: Jean-Claude Forest, [Art Director]: Enrico Fea, Assistant Art Director: Umberto Campagna, [Set Decorator]: Giorgio Herman, Costumes by: Jacques Fonteray, Inspiration for B's costume in final seq: Paco Rabane, Costume House: Farani, Wardrobe Supervisor: Gloria Mussetta, [Hairstyles]: Amalia Paoletti, Wigs by: Maggi, Rocchetti, Titles by: Équipe Arcady, Optical Effects: Charles Staffell, Laboratory: Franay LTC, Lyrics and Music by: Bob Crewe, Charles Fox, Music Performed by: The Bob Crewe Generation Orchestra, Songs Sung by: The Glitterhouse, [Bob Crewe Gen'n Orchestra] Conducted by: Charles Fox, [Music] Supervised by: Bob Crewe, Sound Engineer: David Hildyard, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, Compressed Air for Special Effects: Atlas Copco, Logo [Sound re-recording]: Reeves Sound Studios, Made in: De Laurentiis Studios (Rome)
Cast (26)
Jane Fonda (Barbarella), John Phillip Law (Pygar), Anita Pallenberg (the Black Queen), Milo O'Shea (Durand-Durand, the concierge), Marcel Marceau (Professor Ping), Claude Dauphin (President of Earth), Véronique Vendell (Captain Moon), Serge Marquand (Captain Sun), Nino Musco (the Generale), Umberto Di Grazia (Sogo citizen), Giancarlo Cobelli (the revolutionary), Franco Gulà (the suicide [scenes deleted from Elv]), Catherine Chevallier, Marie Thérèse Chevallier (twins Stomoxys & Glossina), David Hemmings (Dildano), Ugo Tognazzi (Mark Hand), Talitha Pol ([pipe-smoking girl]), Maria Theresa Orsini ([the suicide girl]), Sergio Ferrero ([the Black Queen's messenger]), Chantal Cachin ([the female revolutionary]), Romolo Valli ([older of two Sogo kidnappers]), Antonio Sabàto ([Jean-Paul]), Fabio Testi ([tall man]), Giuseppe Castellano ([red-haired and bearded man]), Barbara Winner, Carla Rousso ([])