Original title: Les parapluies de Cherbourg
Year: 1964
Runtime: 87 minutes
Country: France | West Germany
Language: French
Subtitles: English (.srt) | Romanian (.sub)
Genre: Drama | Musical | Romance
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast:
Catherine Deneuve … Geneviève Emery
Nino Castelnuovo … Guy Foucher
Anne Vernon … Madame Emery
Marc Michel … Roland Cassard
Ellen Farner … Madeleine
Mireille Perrey … Aunt Élise
Jean Champion … Aubin (as J. Champion)
Pierre Caden … Bernard (as P. Caden)
Jean-Pierre Dorat … Jean (as J.P. Dorat)
Bernard Fradet … Gas Station Apprentice (as B. Fradet)
Michel Benoist … Umbrella Buyer (as M. Benoist)
Philippe Dumat … Garage Customer in 1957 (as P. Dumat)
Dorothée Blank … Girl in Cafe (as D. Blank)
Jane Carat … Ginny (as J. Carat)
Harald Wolff … Monsieur Dubourg
Plot/Synopsis:
Geneviève, 17, lives with her widowed mother, who owns an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She and Guy, a twenty-year-old auto mechanic, are secretly in love and want to marry, but when she reveals this to her mother, her mother objects on the grounds that Geneviève is too young and Guy is not mature or well-established enough, particularly since he has not yet done his required military service.
Shortly after this, Guy is drafted to serve in the war in Algeria. Before he leaves, he and Geneviève consummate their love for each other, which results in her becoming pregnant. While Guy is away they drift apart, and Geneviève, strongly encouraged by her mother, accepts a marriage proposal from a well-to-do gem dealer named Roland Cassard, who has fallen in love with her at first sight and has promised to bring up her child as his own. (The character of Cassard is continued from Demy’s earlier film Lola (1961).) Guy is wounded and is discharged before his two-year term is up, but when he returns to Cherbourg Geneviève has already married and moved away. He struggles with depression and anger, but eventually is healed by falling in love with and marrying Madeleine, a young woman who had been caring for his now-deceased aunt Élise. Using an inheritance from his aunt, Guy fulfills his ambition of opening a service station. Years later, the now conspicuously wealthy Geneviève, traveling with her daughter, Guy’s child, accidentally meet Guy at his service station. While the two have only a brief conversation about the state of their respective lives, the conversation is clearly fraught with unspoken fondness and regret.
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg aka Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)
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