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 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.

• Jacques DemyDirector
• Michel LegrandOriginal Music Composer
• Jacques DemyWriter
• Jacques DemyScreenplay

• 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