72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Les Parapluies de Cherbourg / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Jacques Demy
France-Germany
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Geneviève, a seventeen-year-old girl whose mother has an umbrella shop, is in love with Guy, a twenty-year-old mechanic. Guy and Geneviève want to marry, but her mother does not approve of it. Guy leaves for his two-year military service in Algeria. Pregnant, with hardly any news from Guy, Geneviève allows her mother to persuade her to marry Roland Cassard, a wealthy diamond merchant. Winner of the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, 1964.
Director
Jacques Demy
Screenplay
Jacques Demy
Production
Mag Bodard, Gilbert de Goldschmidt Parc Film / Madeleine Films / Beta Film
Photography
Jean Rabier
Edition
Anne-Marie Cotret
Music
Michel Legrand
Cast
Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farmer
Running Time
83 m.
Country
France-Germany
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