Umbrella Coup (1980)

Name: Umbrella Coup
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1980
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 6.9

★ 6.9· 95 min· Comedy, Crime

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

Pierre Richard — Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps

Pierre Richard (born Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays (originally de Fays, his grandfather changed the spelling for unknown reasons), 16 August 1934 in Valenciennes, Nord) is a popular French actor best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films. Richard is considered by many, such as Louis de Funès and Gérard Depardieu, to be one of the greatest and most talented Fren

Valérie Mairesse — Sylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T.

Valérie Mairesse (born 8 June 1954) is a French stage and film actress. She was nominated for the César Awards 1978 for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Repérages.