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Umbrella Coup

Original title: Le Coup du parapluie

1980 · 1h 35m

Directed by Gérard Oury

6.9

TMDB audience score
200 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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

  • 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'

  • Mike Marshall
    Le docteur, homme de main de La Baleine

  • Vittorio Caprioli
    Don Barberini, mafioso italien

  • Tiberio Murgia
    Lorenzo, homme de confiance de Don Barberini

  • Patrick Lecocq
    Le journaliste télé

  • Robert Dalban
    Le régisseur du café-théâtre

  • Georges Anderson