The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

1964 · 93 min · ★ 7.4 / 10 · 913 votes

Drama · Romance

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

Cast

Catherine Deneuve · Nino Castelnuovo · Anne Vernon · Mireille Perrey · Marc Michel · Ellen Farner · Jean Champion · Jean-Pierre Dorat · Harald Wolff · Pierre Caden

Director

Jacques Demy