The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Name: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Director: Jacques Demy
Released: 1964-02-19T00:00:00Z

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.

Runtime: 93

Release date: 1964-02-19

<article> <figure> <img src="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/czfbhgM0cjFqPt4ARofDKgRHCyj.jpg" title='The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' alt='The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'/> </figure> <h1>The Umbrellas of Cherbourg</h1> <p>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.</p> <details><summary>Runtime: 93</summary> <summary>Release date: 1964-02-19</summary></details> </article>