 Complete the following phrase:  The film had its world premiere at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City on October 28, 1954. The following February, it opened in London and Berlin, and in both cities it played for more than a year in exclusive first-run engagements. Because of a technicality in French copyright laws on order of the estate of composer Georges Bizet who wrote the opera on which the film was based, the film was banned in France until 1981. However, it was permitted to open the 