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February 19, 1964 · France, Germany

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

3.7/5
Original title: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
French 1h33FSK 6 Drama, Romance
Jacques DemyCatherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, and Anne Vernon
Awards
Cannes Film FestivalPalme d'Or1964
Academy Awards (Oscars)Best International Feature Film1965

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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