Movie
...And God Created Woman
Overview
18-year-old orphan Juliette's unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his futile attempts to tame her wild ways.
Details
- Release date
- 1956-11-28
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Iéna Productions, Cocinor, Crow Productions, Hoche Productions, Union Cinématographique Lyonnaise (UCIL)
- Country
- France
- Original language
- FR
Cast
- Brigitte Bardot as Juliette Hardy
- Jean-Louis Trintignant as Michel Tardieu
- Curd Jürgens as Eric Carradine
- Jane Marken as Madame Morin
- Jean Tissier as M. Vigier-Lefranc
- Isabelle Corey as Lucienne
- Jacqueline Ventura as Mme Vigier-Lefranc
- Christian Marquand as Antoine Tardieu
- Georges Poujouly as Christian Tardieu
- Jacques Ciron as Le secrétaire d'Eric
- Paul Faivre as M. Morin
- Marie Glory as Mme. Tardieu
Crew
- Roger Vadim - Director
- Raoul Lévy - Screenplay
- Roger Vadim - Screenplay
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