LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG

THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG

By Jacques DEMY

CINÉMATHÈQUE SUISSE / SWISS FILM ARCHIVE - as DISTR Theatrical, SWITZERLAND

Comedy - Completed 1963


Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2013
Cannes Classics
    • Year of production
    • 1963
    • Genres
    • Comedy, Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 92 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jacques DEMY
    • Writer(s)
    • Jacques DEMY
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/0B05-E129-A40E-ECC5-5ACC-Y
    • Synopsis
    • Genevière Emery, whose mother has an umbrella shop, loves Guy Foucher. Madame Emery doesn't approve of this idyll with a young mechanic. Guy is called up, to the Algeria war and Geneviève gives herself before he leaves...She is pregnant. Guy gives little news. Pushed by her mother, Geneviève accepts to marry Roland Cassard, a rich diamond cutter. A few years later, on a Christmas eve, it snows and...