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.
📜 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.
🌏 Languages Available:
French
,
Italian
📆 Date Released:
1981-05-27
⌚ Running Time:
184 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
6.973
Beloved Cast
Simon Meyer / Robert Prat
Robert Hossein
Anne Meyer
Nicole Garcia
Suzan / Sara Glenn
Geraldine Chaplin
Karl Kremer
Daniel Olbrychski
Boris & Sergei Itovitch / Lead Dancer of Boléro
Jorge Donn
Tatiana & Tania Itovitch
Rita Poelvoorde
Magda Kremer
Macha Méril
Evelyne / Edith
Évelyne Bouix
Francis
Francis Huster
M. Raymond
Raymond Pellegrin
Le grand-père d'Edith
Paul Préboist
Le directeur du Lido
Jean-Claude Brialy
La grand-mère d'Edith
Marthe Villalonga
Véronique
Fanny Ardant
Philippe Rouget
Jean-Claude Bouttier
Richard
Richard Bohringer
Nicole Croisille
Nicole Croisille
Ginette
Ginette Garcin
Père Antoine
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Jeanne
Geneviève Mnich
Alexandra
Alexandra Stewart
Eva
Éva Darlan
Patrick Prat
Manuel Gélin
Candice
Candice Patou
Me Isabelle Prat
Maïa Simon
Jack Glenn / Jason Glenn
James Caan
Sarah Abrell
Alexis
Féodor Atkine
Mireille Audibert
Le garde-barrière
Jean-Claude Bourbault
Christophe Bourseiller
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
La fille d'Eva
Anne Caudry
La bonne du Père Antoine
Louise Chevalier
Véronique Coquet
Thérèse Crémieux
Katalin Csarny
Dan Daes
Gina
Nicole Daresco
Andrée Delair
Linda Dingwall
Le représentant Croix Rouge (UNICEF)
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Le voisin
Maxime Dufeu
Glenn as a boy
Andy Fenwick
Farmer Fuller
Bobby
Ernie Garrett
Charlot
Charles Gérard
Evelyne Hue
Gérard Ismaël
Philippe Jacques
Mr. Tracy
Lyle Joyce
Jacques
Jacques Villeret
Francis's girlfriend
Valérie Quennessen
Girl with Glenn Senior (uncredited)
Sharon Stone
