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Bolero: Dance of Life is a french film of genre Drama directed by Claude Lelouch with Robert Hossein
Bolero: Dance of Life (1981)
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Add to a movie listLes Uns et les Autres is a 1981 French film by Claude Lelouch. The film is a musical epic and it is widely considered as the director's best work with Un Homme et une Femme. It won the Technical Grand Prize at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. In the United States, it was distributed under the name Boléro in reference to Maurice Ravel's orchestral piece, used in the film. The film was very successful in France with 3,234,549 admissions and was the 6th highest grossing film of the year.
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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 1980s. 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.Actors
Robert Hossein
(Simon Meyer / Robert Prat)
Nicole Garcia
(Anne Meyer)
Geraldine Chaplin
(Suzan / Sara Glenn)
Daniel Olbrychski
(Karl Kremer)
Fanny Ardant
(Véronique)
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