Bolero (1981) — drama, music film. Directed by Claude Lelouch. Starring Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniel Olbrychski. This page maps 3 characters and 3 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
Interactive Features for Bolero
Bolero offers interactive tools beyond traditional movie databases:
Character Relationship Map
— Interactive D3-powered visualization of character connections, alliances, and conflicts. Explore how 3 characters interconnect through 3 relationship links.
A multi-generational saga tracing four musical families whose fates intertwine through World War II and culminate in a unifying dance sequence.
Drama, Music · 6.9/10 · 184 min · 1981
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.
