Flash Gordon
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Barbarella
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About 1968 film directed by Roger Vadim
Genres fantasy, comedy, adventure, space opera, science fiction, erotic, retrofuturism
Directed by Roger Vadim
Written by Roger Vadim, Terry Southern, Jean-Claude Forest, Claude Brulé
Starring Jane Fonda, Marcel Marceau, Ugo Tognazzi, David Hemmings, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, Claude Dauphin, John Phillip Law
Music Maurice Jarre
Runtime 98 min
Country Italy, France
Links TMDB · IMDb · Letterboxd · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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