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.

• DirectorJacques Demy
• Release19 February 1964
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration1h 32m
• Budget$200,000
• Revenue$7,600,000
• Rate
  

  7.389
  806 reviews
• Productions

  Parc Film, Madeleine Films, Beta Film