The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

Name: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Released: 1964
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Mireille Perrey, Marc Michel

• Movies, Drama, Romance

• 92 min

7.3

A film for all the young lovers of the world.

Directed by: Jacques Demy
Casting: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Mireille Perrey, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner, Jean Champion, Jean-Pierre Dorat, Harald Wolff, Pierre Caden, Bernard Fradet, Michel Benoist, Philippe Dumat, Dorothée Blanck, Jane Carat, 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
Countries: France, Germany
Premiere: 1964-02-19
Status: Released

Tags: car mechanic, letter, normandy, france, musical, single, umbrella, 1950s, 1960s, somber, cherbourg, france, earnest

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.