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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Directed by Jacques Demy
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Overview
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.
Rated PG-13 | Length 92 minutes
Actors
Catherine Deneuve | Nino Castelnuovo | Anne Vernon | Mireille Perrey | Marc Michel | Ellen Farner | Jean Champion | Pierre Caden | Jean-Pierre Dorat | Bernard Fradet | Michel Benoist | Philippe Dumat | Dorothée Blanck | Jane Carat | Harald Wolff | Danielle Licari | José Bartel | Christiane Legrand | Georges Blaness | Claudine Meunier | Claire Leclerc | Patrick Bricard | Jacques Camelinat | François Charet | Jean-Pierre Chizat | Jacques Demy | Bernard Garnier | Gisèle Grandpré | Hervé Legrand | Michel Legrand | Myriam Michelson | Paul Pavel | Roger Perrinoz | Rosalie Varda