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Bolero: Dance of Life

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

6.9 average rating
6.9
French / 184 MIN. / 1981

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Robert HosseinNicole GarciaGeraldine ChaplinDaniel OlbrychskiJorge DonnRita PoelvoordeMacha MérilÉvelyne BouixFrancis HusterRaymond PellegrinPaul PréboistJean-Claude BrialyMarthe VillalongaFanny ArdantJean-Claude BouttierRichard BohringerNicole CroisilleGinette GarcinJean-Pierre KalfonGeneviève MnichAlexandra StewartÉva DarlanManuel GélinCandice PatouMaïa SimonJames CaanSarah AbrellFéodor AtkineMireille AudibertJean-Claude BourbaultChristophe BourseillerJean-Pierre CastaldiAnne CaudryLouise ChevalierVéronique CoquetThérèse CrémieuxKatalin CsarnyDan DaesNicole DarescoAndrée DelairLinda DingwallBernard-Pierre DonnadieuMaxime DufeuAndy FenwickFarmer FullerErnie GarrettCharles GérardEvelyne HueGérard IsmaëlPhilippe JacquesLyle JoyceJacques VilleretValérie QuennessenSharon Stone

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