Bolero: Dance of Life

Bolero: Dance of Life (1981)

The film is a musical epic and it is widely considered as the director's best work with Un Homme et une Femme.

  • Genre: Drama, Music
  • Release Date: 1981-05-27
  • User Rating: 6.9/10 from 74 ratings
  • Runtime: 3h 4min
  • Language: Français
  • Production Company: Les Films 13
  • Production Country: France
  • Director: Claude Lelouch
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Summary

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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  • Robert Hossein

    as Simon Meyer / Robert Prat

  • Nicole Garcia

    as Anne Meyer

  • Geraldine Chaplin

    as Suzan / Sara Glenn

  • Daniel Olbrychski

    as Karl Kremer

  • Jorge Donn

    as Boris & Sergei Itovitch / Lead Dancer of Boléro

  • Rita Poelvoorde

    as Tatiana & Tania Itovitch

  • 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

    as

  • Féodor Atkine

    as Alexis

  • Mireille Audibert

    as

  • Jean-Claude Bourbault

    as Le garde-barrière

  • Christophe Bourseiller

    as

  • Jean-Pierre Castaldi

    as

  • Anne Caudry

    as La fille d'Eva

  • Louise Chevalier

    as La bonne du Père Antoine

  • Véronique Coquet

    as

  • Thérèse Crémieux

    as

  • Katalin Csarny

    as

  • Dan Daes

    as

  • Nicole Daresco

    as Gina

  • Andrée Delair

    as

  • Linda Dingwall

    as

  • Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

    as Le représentant Croix Rouge (UNICEF)

  • Maxime Dufeu

    as Le voisin

  • Andy Fenwick

    as Glenn as a boy

  • Farmer Fuller

    as

  • Ernie Garrett

    as Bobby

  • Charles Gérard

    as Charlot

  • Evelyne Hue

    as

  • Gérard Ismaël

    as

  • Philippe Jacques

    as

  • Lyle Joyce

    as Mr. Tracy

  • Jacques Villeret

    as Jacques

  • Valérie Quennessen

    as Francis's girlfriend

  • Sharon Stone

    as Girl with Glenn Senior (uncredited)
Directing Claude Lelouch Director
Writing Claude Lelouch Writer
Production Claude Lelouch Producer
Sound Francis Lai Music
Sound Michel Legrand Music
Camera Jean Boffety Director of Photography
Editing Sophie Bhaud Editor
Editing Hugues Darmois Editor

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