Barbarella is a Science Fiction movie from 1968 starring Jane Fonda, David Hemmings, John Philip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, and Marcel Marceau. The film was produced by Dino de Laurentiis and directed by Roger Vadim, Fonda's husband at the time.

The film is based on a French comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest, who originated the character for serialisation in the French magazine V-Magazine in 1962. The film was simultaneously shot in French and English. In the French version, Fonda performs her own lines in French.

It is famous for a sequence in which the title character performs a striptease in zero gravity during the opening credits. The band Duran Duran takes its name from Dr. Durand-Durand, a mad scientist who appears in the film as one of the villains. Some of their early appearances were at a nightclub called Barbarella's, in their home town of Birmingham, England.

Barbarella is one of the few science fiction erotica films.

External link

• Barbarella IMDB entry

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