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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
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.
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- Release
- 1964-02-19
- Rating
- PG-13
- TMDB score
- 7.4/10
- Original language
- FR
- Status
- Released
- Production
- France, Germany
- Studio
- Parc Film, Madeleine Films, Beta Film
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Topicscar mechanicletternormandy, francemusicalsingleumbrella1950s1960s