Umbrella Coup (1980)
Le coup du parapluie
98 min
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.
- Release date
- October 8, 1980
- Country of origin
- France
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Cast
- Pierre Richard as Grégoire Lecomte
- Valérie Mairesse as Sylvette, alias Bunny
- Christine Murillo as Josyane Leblanc
- Gérard Jugnot as Frédo
- Gordon Mitchell as Moskovitz, le tueur
- Roger Carel as Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison
- Gert Fröbe as Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine
- Maurice Risch as Le producteur de Paris
- Dominique Lavanant as Mireille
- Axelle Abbadie as Juliette, la fleuriste
- Yaseen Khan as Radj Kahn
- Didier Sauvegrain as Stanislas Lefort, dit Constantin Patakis, alias Pierre Juvet, dit 'La Folle'
- Mike Marshall as Le docteur, homme de main de La Baleine
- Vittorio Caprioli as Don Barberini, mafioso italien
- Tiberio Murgia as Lorenzo, homme de confiance de Don Barberini
- Robert Dalban as Le régisseur du café-théâtre
Crew
- Gérard Oury · Director
- Gérard Oury · Writer
- Danièle Thompson · Writer
- Vladimir Cosma · Composer
- Henri Decaë · Cinematographer
- Albert Jurgenson · Editor
- Margot Capelier · Casting director
- Jean André · Production designer