'' 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 '' . It won the Technical Grand Prize at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival . In the United States , it was distributed under the name '' Boléro '' in reference to Maurice Ravel 's orchestral piece , used in the film . The film was very successful in France with 3,234,549 admissions and was the 6th highest grossing film of the year
1981 Cannes Film Festival
1981 Cannes Film Festival
Les Uns et les Autres