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	IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 from 11,282 votes
	Release: 1964 / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
	Genre: Drama \| Musical \| Romance
	Director: Jacques Demy
	Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon
	Synopsis: Geneviève, 17, lives with her widowed mother, who owns an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She and Guy, a twenty-year-old auto mechanic, are secretly in love and want to marry, but when she reveals this to her mother, her mother objects on the grounds that Geneviève is too young and Guy is not mature or well-established enough, particularly since he has not yet done his required military service. Shortly after this, Guy is drafted to serve in the war in Algeria. Before he leaves, he and Geneviève consummate their love for each other, which results in her becoming pregnant. While Guy is away they drift apart, and Geneviève, strongly encouraged by her mother, accepts a marriage proposal from a well-to-do gem dealer named Roland Cassard, who has fallen in love with her at first sight and has promised to bring up her child as his own. (The character of Cassard is continued from Demy's earlier film .) Guy is wounded and is discharged before his two-year term is up, but when he returns to ...