Umbrella Coup

Umbrella Coup (1980)

Le Coup du parapluie

Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.

Date of release
1980-10-08
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (199)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Comedy, Crime
Director
Gérard Oury

Casting

  • Pierre Richard — Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps
  • Valérie Mairesse — Sylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T.
  • Christine Murillo — Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire
  • Gérard Jugnot — Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire
  • Gordon Mitchell — Moskovitz, le tueur à gages
  • Roger Carel — Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison
  • Gert Fröbe — Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine
  • Maurice Risch — Le producteur de Paris
  • Dominique Lavanant — Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire
  • Axelle Abbadie — Juliette, la fleuriste, ex-femme non divorcée de Grégoire
  • Yaseen Khan — Radj Kahn, homme de main de La Baleine
  • Didier Sauvegrain — Stanislas Lefort, dit Constantin Patakis, alias Pierre Juvet, dit 'La Folle'

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