Bolero
Les uns et les autres
Drama
Music
The dance of life!
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.
1981-05-27
fr
Cast
Director
Claude Lelouch
Robert Hossein as Simon Meyer / Robert Prat
Nicole Garcia as Anne Meyer
Geraldine Chaplin as Suzan / Sara Glenn
Daniel Olbrychski as Karl Kremer
Macha Méril as Magda Kremer
Évelyne Bouix as Evelyne / Edith
Francis Huster as Francis
Raymond Pellegrin as M. Raymond
Paul Préboist as Le grand-père d'Edith
Jean-Claude Brialy as Le directeur du Lido
Marthe Villalonga as La grand-mère d'Edith
Fanny Ardant as Véronique
Jean-Claude Bouttier as Philippe Rouget
Richard Bohringer as Richard
Nicole Croisille as Nicole Croisille
Ginette Garcin as Ginette
Jean-Pierre Kalfon as Père Antoine
Geneviève Mnich as Jeanne
Alexandra Stewart as Alexandra
Éva Darlan as Eva
Manuel Gélin as Patrick Prat
Candice Patou as Candice
Maïa Simon as Me Isabelle Prat
James Caan as Jack Glenn / Jason Glenn
Sarah Abrell
Féodor Atkine as Alexis
Mireille Audibert
Jean-Claude Bourbault as Le garde-barrière
Christophe Bourseiller
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Anne Caudry as La fille d'Eva
Louise Chevalier as La bonne du Père Antoine
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu as Le représentant Croix Rouge (UNICEF)
Charles Gérard as Charlot
Gérard Ismaël
Jacques Villeret as Jacques
Valérie Quennessen as Francis's girlfriend
Sharon Stone as Girl with Glenn Senior (uncredited)