Bolero: Dance of Life

6.8 / 10

(70 votes)

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.

Country:

France

Genre:

Drama,

Music

Duration:

184 minutes

Year:

1981

Director:

Claude Lelouch

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Company:

Les Films 13

Cast:
Robert Hossein

Simon Meyer / Robert Prat

Nicole Garcia

Anne Meyer

Geraldine Chaplin

Suzan / Sara Glenn

Daniel Olbrychski

Karl Kremer

Jorge Donn

Boris & Sergei Itovitch / Lead Dancer of Boléro

Crew:
Claude Lelouch

Director

Claude Lelouch

Writer

Jean Boffety

Director of Photography

Hugues Darmois

Editor

Michel Legrand

Music