Umbrella Coup (1980)
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.
- Released
- 1980-10-08
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Gérard Oury
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 from 199 votes
Cast
- Pierre Richard as Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps
- Valérie Mairesse as Sylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T.
- Christine Murillo as Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire
- Gérard Jugnot as Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire
- Gordon Mitchell as Moskovitz, le tueur à gages
- 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, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire
- Axelle Abbadie as Juliette, la fleuriste, ex-femme non divorcée de Grégoire
- Yaseen Khan as Radj Kahn, homme de main de La Baleine
- Didier Sauvegrain as Stanislas Lefort, dit Constantin Patakis, alias Pierre Juvet, dit 'La Folle'