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Bolero

Original title: Les uns et les autres

The dance of life!

  • Movie
  • 1981
  • 3h 4m

Directed by Claude Lelouch

6.9

TMDB audience rating
6.9 out of 10 from 88 votes

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Overview

The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.

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Cast and crew

  • Robert Hossein

    Robert HosseinSimon Meyer / Robert Prat

  • Nicole Garcia

    Nicole GarciaAnne Meyer

  • Geraldine Chaplin

    Geraldine ChaplinSuzan / Sara Glenn

  • Daniel Olbrychski

    Daniel OlbrychskiKarl Kremer

  • Jorge Donn

    Jorge DonnBoris & Sergei Itovitch / Lead Dancer of Boléro

  • Rita PoelvoordeTatiana & Tania Itovitch

  • Macha Méril

    Macha MérilMagda Kremer

  • Évelyne Bouix

    Évelyne BouixEvelyne / Edith

  • Francis Huster

    Francis HusterFrancis

  • Raymond Pellegrin

    Raymond PellegrinM. Raymond

  • Paul Préboist

    Paul PréboistLe grand-père d'Edith

  • Jean-Claude Brialy

    Jean-Claude BrialyLe directeur du Lido

  • Marthe Villalonga

    Marthe VillalongaLa grand-mère d'Edith

  • Fanny Ardant

    Fanny ArdantVéronique

  • Jean-Claude Bouttier

    Jean-Claude BouttierPhilippe Rouget

  • Richard Bohringer

    Richard BohringerRichard

  • Nicole Croisille

    Nicole CroisilleNicole Croisille

  • Ginette Garcin

    Ginette GarcinGinette

Director
Claude Lelouch
Writer
Claude Lelouch
Music
Francis Lai and Michel Legrand
Cinematography
Jean Boffety