Les Uns et les Autres

Infobox_Film
name=Les Uns et les Autres (Bolero)


director=Claude Lelouch
producer=Claude Lelouch
writer=Claude Lelouch
starring=Robert Hossein
Nicole Garcia
Geraldine Chaplin
Daniel Olbrychski
Jorge Donn
Fanny Ardant
Jacques Villeret
Richard Bohringer
James Caan
and many others
music=Michel Legrand
Francis Lai
Pierre Barouh
Jean Yanne
Marc de Loutchek
cinematography=Maurice Béjart
released=1981
runtime=184 min
country=France flagicon|FRA
language=French, German, English, Russian
imdb_id=0083260 |

"Les 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", Palme d'or in Cannes. In the United States, it was distribued under the name Boléro in reference to Maurice Ravel's famous orchestral piece, used in the film.

Plot

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, Glen Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The "Boléro" dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.

Cast

* Robert Hossein : "Simon Meyer / Robert Prat"
* Nicole Garcia : "Anne Meyer"
* Géraldine Chaplin : "Suzanne Glenn / Sarah Glenn"
* James Caan : "Jack Glenn / Jason Glenn"
* Daniel Olbrychski : "Karl Kremer"
* Jean-Claude Bouttier : "Philippe Rouget"
* Jorge Donn : "Boris Itovitch / Sergei Itovitch"
* Rita Poelvoorde : "Tatiana Itovitch / Nadia Itovitch"
* Macha Méril : "Magda Kremer"
* Evelyne Bouix : "Evelyne / Edith"
* Francis Huster : "Francis"
* Raymond Pellegrin : "M. Raymond"
* Paul Préboist : "Edith's grandfather"
* Jean-Claude Brialy : "Lido's director"
* Marthe Villalonga : "Edith's grandmother"
* Fanny Ardant : "Véronique"
* Jacques Villeret : "Jacques"
* Alexandra Stewart
* Richard Bohringer : "Richard"
* Nicole Croisille : "Herself"
* Ginette Garcin : "Ginette"
* Jean-Pierre Kalfon : "Antoine's father"
* Geneviève Mnich : "Jeanne, Jacques' mother"
* Francis Lai
* Barry Primus
* Brigitte Roüan (only in director's cut)
* Sharon Stone