Umbrella Coup

6.9 / 10

(165 votes)

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.

Country:

France

Genre:

Comedy,

Crime

Duration:

95 minutes

Year:

1980

Director:

Gérard Oury

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Company:

Gaumont,

Gaumont International

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

Crew:
Gérard Oury

Director

Danièle Thompson

Writer

Gérard Oury

Writer

Henri Decaë

Director of Photography

Vladimir Cosma

Original Music Composer