The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

7.4 1964 Jacques Demy 1h 33m
Drama Romance
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

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

Cast

Catherine Deneuve Catherine Deneuve Geneviève Emery
Nino Castelnuovo Nino Castelnuovo Guy Foucher
Anne Vernon Anne Vernon Madame Emery
Mireille Perrey Mireille Perrey Tante Élise
Marc Michel Marc Michel Roland Cassard
Ellen Farner Ellen Farner Madeleine
Jean Champion Jean Champion Aubin
Jean-Pierre Dorat Jean-Pierre Dorat Jean

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