Bolero: Dance of Life (1981) on Netflix
Tatiana is an aspiring dancer in Moscow, Karl Kremer is a pianist in Berlin, and Anne and Simon Meyer make music in Paris. In New York, Jack Glenn leads a jazz band.
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Plot summary
Four families, Russian, German, French and American, build their lives around music, and their stories cross in different places and times. In Moscow, Tatiana, an aspiring dancer, marries Boris Itovitch, and they have a son. In Berlin, the pianist Karl Kremer receives praise from Hitler, a moment that stays with him. In Paris, the young violinist Anne falls in love with the Jewish pianist Simon Meyer, and they marry and have a son. In New York, Jack Glenn makes his name with a popular jazz band. The Second World War mixes the fates of the four families and brings their stories together, and the theme each of them carries changes as the years pass.
Cast
- Rita Poelvoordeas Tatiana & Tania Itovitch
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bolero: Dance of Life (1981)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film's characters are fictional, but many of them are loosely based on real musical icons, among them Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller and Rudolf Nureyev.
- For its American release the film was heavily cut and put out under the title Bolero: Dance of Life.
