Umbrella Coup (1980)
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.
Director: Gérard Oury
Writers: Danièle Thompson, Gérard Oury
The 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
Ceyla Lacerda
Mannequin brésilienne, 2nd épouse de Pierre (archive footage)
Dominique Virton
Le metteur en scène
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