Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
director:
Jacques Demy
playwright:
Jacques Demy
actor:
Catherine Deneuve
/
Nino Castelnuovo
/
Anne Vernon
/
Mireille Perrey
/
Marc Michel
…
genre:
Drame
/
Romance
region:
France
language:
French
length: 1h 31m
release date: 1964-02-19
IMDb: tt0058450
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
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.