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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Catherine Deneuve as Geneviève Emery
Nino Castelnuovo as Guy
Anne Vernon as Madame Emery
Mireille Perrey as Tante Élise
Marc Michel as Roland Cassard
Ellen Farner as Madeleine
Jean Champion as Aubin
Jean-Pierre Dorat as Jean
Harald Wolff as Monsieur Dubourg
Pierre Caden as Bernard
Bernard Fradet as Gas Station Apprentice
Michel Benoist as Umbrella Buyer
Philippe Dumat as Garage Customer in 1957
Dorothée Blanck as Girl in Cafe
Jane Carat as Ginny
Danielle Licari as Geneviève Emery (singing voice)
José Bartel as Guy Foucher (singing voice)
Christiane Legrand as Madame Emery (singing voice)
Georges Blaness as Roland Cassard (singing voice)
Claudine Meunier as Madeleine (singing voice, as C. Meunier)
Claire Leclerc as Tante Élise (singing voice)
Patrick Bricard as Waiter (uncredited)
Jacques Camelinat as Garage Customer in 1959 (uncredited)
François Charet as Mechanic in 1959 (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Chizat as Pierre - Mechanic (uncredited)
Jacques Demy as Le client égaré / Le serveur (singing voice)
Bernard Garnier as Mechanic in 1959 (uncredited)
Gisèle Grandpré as Madame Germaine (uncredited)
Hervé Legrand as François Foucher (uncredited)
Michel Legrand as Jean (singing voice) (uncredited)
Myriam Michelson as Girl in Cafe (uncredited)
Paul Pavel as First Removal Man (uncredited)
Roger Perrinoz as Cafe Owner (uncredited)
Rosalie Varda as Françoise Cassard (uncredited)
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