Movie
Bolero
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1981-05-27
- Runtime
- 184 min
- Genres
- Drama, Music
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Les Films 13
- Country
- France
- Original language
- FR
Cast
- 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
Crew
- Claude Lelouch - Director
- Claude Lelouch - Writer
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