Film · Drama, Romance
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
A film for all the young lovers of the world.
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.
- Director
- Jacques Demy
- Writers
- Jacques Demy
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Release date
- February 19, 1964
- Original title
- Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Cast
Catherine DeneuveGeneviève Emery
Nino CastelnuovoGuy Foucher
Anne VernonMadame Emery- Mireille PerreyTante Élise
Marc MichelRoland Cassard
Ellen FarnerMadeleine
Jean ChampionAubin
Jean-Pierre DoratJean- Harald WolffMonsieur Dubourg
- Pierre CadenBernard
- Bernard FradetGas Station Apprentice
- Michel BenoistUmbrella Buyer
Philippe DumatGarage Customer in 1957
Dorothée BlanckGirl in Cafe- Jane CaratGinny
Danielle LicariGeneviève Emery (singing voice)- José BartelGuy Foucher (singing voice)
Christiane LegrandMadame Emery (singing voice)
Georges BlanessRoland Cassard (singing voice)- Claudine MeunierMadeleine (singing voice, as C. Meunier)
