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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

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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Box Office

Budget: $200,000
Revenue: $7,600,000
ROI: +3,700.0%

Verdict: Hit

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Crew

Directors

> Jacques Demy (Director)
> Jean Rabier (Director of Photography)
> André Flédérick (Second Assistant Director)
> Jean-Paul Savignac (Assistant Director)
> Jean Didenot (Assistant Art Director)
> Klaus Müller-Laue (Assistant Director)

Writers

> Jacques Demy (Writer)
> Jacques Demy (Screenplay)
> Jacques Demy (Lyricist)
> Jacques Demy (Dialogue)
> Jacques Demy (Scenario Writer)