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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964Directed by Jacques Demy1h 33m
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
A film for all the young lovers of the world.
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.
- Drama
- Romance
Cast
- Catherine Deneuve as Geneviève Emery
- Nino Castelnuovo as Guy Foucher
- Anne Vernon as Madame Emery
- Mireille Perrey as Tante Élise
- Marc Michel as Roland Cassard
- Ellen Farner as Madeleine
- Jean Champion as Aubin
- Jean-Pierre Dorat as Jean
- Harald Wolff as Monsieur Dubourg
- Pierre Caden as Bernard
- Bernard Fradet as Gas Station Apprentice
- Michel Benoist as Umbrella Buyer
- Philippe Dumat as Garage Customer in 1957
- Dorothée Blanck as Girl in Cafe
- Jane Carat as Ginny
- Danielle Licari as Geneviève Emery (singing voice)
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