Bolero

Bolero

70% | May 27, 1981 | Drama, Music

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.

Featured Cast

Claude Lelouch
Director
Hugues Darmois
Editor

Cast

Simon Meyer / Robert Prat
Robert Hossein
Simon Meyer / Robert Prat
Anne Meyer
Nicole Garcia
Anne Meyer
Suzan / Sara Glenn
Geraldine Chaplin
Suzan / Sara Glenn
Karl Kremer
Daniel Olbrychski
Karl Kremer
Boris & Sergei Itovitch / Lead Dancer of Boléro
Jorge Donn
Boris & Sergei Itovitch / Lead Dancer of Boléro

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