Overview - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Overview

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.

Cast

• Name: Catherine Deneuve

  Character: Geneviève Emery

  Popularity: 16.241

  

• Name: Nino Castelnuovo

  Character: Guy

  Popularity: 5.026

  

• Name: Anne Vernon

  Character: Madame Emery

  Popularity: 3.331

  

• Name: Mireille Perrey

  Character: Tante Élise

  Popularity: 0.37

  

• Name: Marc Michel

  Character: Roland Cassard

  Popularity: 3.733

  

• Name: Ellen Farner

  Character: Madeleine

  Popularity: 0.861

  

• Name: Jean Champion

  Character: Aubin

  Popularity: 2.018

  

• Name: Pierre Caden

  Character: Bernard

  Popularity: 0.56