A film for all the young lovers of the world.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

HD 92 min 1964

7.4

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.

Country

France

Genre

Drama Romance

Released

19 Feb, 1964

Cast

Catherine Deneuve Nino Castelnuovo Anne Vernon