The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

French Can-Can

France, Germany / 1964 / 91´

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…

Director: Jacques Demy

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon

 

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