Director:

Jacques Demy

Writer:

Jacques Demy

Country:

France

Release Year:

1964

Duration:

1 h 32 min

Actors: Catherine Deneuve Nino Castelnuovo Anne Vernon Mireille Perrey Marc Michel Ellen Farner Jean Champion Jean-Pierre Dorat Harald Wolff Pierre Caden Bernard Fradet Michel Benoist Philippe Dumat Dorothée Blanck Jane Carat Danielle Licari José Bartel Christiane Legrand

Synopsis: 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.