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. […]

• 1964
• 93 min
• French
• Popularity: 2.2
• Original: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg