Les Uns et les Autres
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| Les Uns et les Autres (Bolero) | |
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| Directed by | Claude Lelouch |
| Produced by | Claude Lelouch |
| Written by | Claude Lelouch |
| Starring | Robert Hossein Nicole Garcia Geraldine Chaplin Daniel Olbrychski Fanny Ardant Jaques Villeret Richard Bohringer James Caan and many others |
| Music by | Michel Legrand Francis Lai Pierre Barouh Jean Yanne |
| Release date(s) | 1981 |
| Running time | 184 min |
| Language | French, English, German, Russian |
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The 1981 musical epic Les Uns et les Autres is widely considered as Claude Lelouch's masterpiece.
The film follows four families (French, German, Russian and American) from the 1930s to the 1960s. The director has done a wonderful job of keeping together the various story lines, that 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, of course, the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Many characters in the film are loosely based on historical musical icons (Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glen Miller, Édith Piaf, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) and the many sub plots, such as in the band of friends returning from the Algerian war, make the film into a rich experience of lives and fates that may confuse some at first sight, but that makes the film interesting and involving even after repeated viewing. The Bolero dance sequence at the end, in which all threads come together, is a cinematographic high point.
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