Les uns et les autres

"The film is a musical epic and it is widely considered as the director's best work with Un Homme et une Femme."

May 27 1981 N/A 3h 4m
Drama, Music

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.

Plot

The intertwined lives of three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the U.S., from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s.

Written by

Claude Lelouch

Directed by

Claude Lelouch

Cast

Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia, Geraldine Chaplin

Crew

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Production Countries

France

Production Companies

Les Films 13

Languages

Italiano, Français

Awards

1 win & 6 nominations total

Featurettes
Daniel Kremer on LES UNS ET LES AUTRES
Scores
# of Votes
2,893
Average Rating
7.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA