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Umbrella Coup

Original title: Le Coup du parapluie

  • Movie
  • 1980
  • 1h 35m

Directed by Gérard Oury

6.9

TMDB audience rating
6.9 out of 10 from 200 votes

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Overview

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.

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Cast and crew

  • Pierre Richard

    Pierre RichardGrégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps

  • Valérie Mairesse

    Valérie MairesseSylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T.

  • Christine Murillo

    Christine MurilloJosyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire

  • Gérard Jugnot

    Gérard JugnotFrédo, agent artistique de Grégoire

  • Gordon Mitchell

    Gordon MitchellMoskovitz, le tueur à gages

  • Roger Carel

    Roger CarelSalvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison

  • Gert Fröbe

    Gert FröbeOtto Krampe, dit La Baleine

  • Maurice Risch

    Maurice RischLe producteur de Paris

  • Dominique Lavanant

    Dominique LavanantMireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire

  • Axelle Abbadie

    Axelle AbbadieJuliette, la fleuriste, ex-femme non divorcée de Grégoire

  • Yaseen Khan

    Yaseen KhanRadj Kahn, homme de main de La Baleine

  • Didier Sauvegrain

    Didier SauvegrainStanislas Lefort, dit Constantin Patakis, alias Pierre Juvet, dit 'La Folle'

  • Mike Marshall

    Mike MarshallLe docteur, homme de main de La Baleine

  • Vittorio Caprioli

    Vittorio CaprioliDon Barberini, mafioso italien

  • Tiberio Murgia

    Tiberio MurgiaLorenzo, homme de confiance de Don Barberini

  • Patrick Lecocq

    Patrick LecocqLe journaliste télé

  • Robert Dalban

    Robert DalbanLe régisseur du café-théâtre

  • Georges Anderson

Director
Gérard Oury
Writer
Danièle Thompson and Gérard Oury
Music
Vladimir Cosma
Cinematography
Henri Decaë