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title: 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jacques Demy'
released: '1964-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 91
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Music'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'West Germany'
  - 'France'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-umbrellas-of-cherbourg-1964'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058450/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

1964 · 91 min · Drama, Music, Romance · West Germany, France

Original title: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

## Synopsis

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a 1964 musical romantic drama film written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music by Michel Legrand. Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo star as two young lovers in the French city of Cherbourg, separated by circumstance. The film's dialogue is entirely sung as recitative, including casual conversation, and is sung-through like some operas and stage musicals. It has been seen as the second of an informal tetralogy of Demy films that share some of the same actors, characters, and overall atmosphere of romantic melancholy, coming after Lola (1961) and before The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) and Model Shop (1969). The French-language film was a co-production between France and West Germany.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jacques Demy](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-demy)
- **Screenplay:** [Jacques Demy](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-demy)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Michel Legrand](https://cinepixo.com/people/michel-legrand)
- **Producer:** [Mag Bodard](https://cinepixo.com/people/mag-bodard)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jean Rabier](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-rabier)
- **Editor:** [Anne-Marie Cotret](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-marie-cotret)

## Cast

- [Mireille Perrey](https://cinepixo.com/people/mireille-perrey)
- [Philippe Dumat](https://cinepixo.com/people/philippe-dumat)
- [Jacques Demy](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-demy)
- [Marc Michel](https://cinepixo.com/people/marc-michel)
- [Myriam Michelson](https://cinepixo.com/people/myriam-michelson)
- [Claire Leclerc](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-leclerc)
- [Nino Castelnuovo](https://cinepixo.com/people/nino-castelnuovo)
- [Jean Cussac](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-cussac)
- [Patrick Bricard](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrick-bricard)
- [Jean-Pierre Dorat](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-pierre-dorat)
- [Harald Wolff](https://cinepixo.com/people/harald-wolff)
- [Michel Legrand](https://cinepixo.com/people/michel-legrand)
- [Ellen Farner](https://cinepixo.com/people/ellen-farner)
- [Christiane Legrand](https://cinepixo.com/people/christiane-legrand)
- [Jean Champion](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-champion)

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