The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

7.4

France

Drama Romance

92 min

1964

Harald Wolff Rosalie Varda Michel Legrand Gisèle Grandpré Jacques Demy Patrick Bricard Georges Blaness Christiane Legrand Danielle Licari Catherine Deneuve Dorothée Blanck Philippe Dumat Jean Champion Ellen Farner Marc Michel Mireille Perrey Anne Vernon Nino Castelnuovo

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.