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.
Director: Gérard Oury
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Pierre Richard as Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps |
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Valérie Mairesse as Sylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T. |
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Christine Murillo as Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire |
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Gérard Jugnot as Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire |
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Gordon Mitchell as Moskovitz, le tueur à gages |
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Roger Carel as Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison |
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Gert Fröbe as Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine |
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Maurice Risch as Le producteur de Paris |
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Dominique Lavanant as Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire |
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Axelle Abbadie as Juliette, la fleuriste, ex-femme non divorcée de Grégoire |
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Yaseen Khan as Radj Kahn, homme de main de La Baleine |
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Didier Sauvegrain as Stanislas Lefort, dit Constantin Patakis, alias Pierre Juvet, dit 'La Folle' |
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Mike Marshall as Le docteur, homme de main de La Baleine |
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Vittorio Caprioli as Don Barberini, mafioso italien |
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Tiberio Murgia as Lorenzo, homme de confiance de Don Barberini |
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Patrick Lecocq as Le journaliste télé |
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Robert Dalban as Le régisseur du café-théâtre |
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Georges Anderson as |
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Ceyla Lacerda as Mannequin brésilienne, 2nd épouse de Pierre (archive footage) |
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Dominique Virton as Le metteur en scène |
| Directing | Gérard Oury | Director |
| Writing | Danièle Thompson | Writer |
| Writing | Gérard Oury | Writer |
| Art | Antonio Román | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jacques Fonteray | Costume Design |
| Production | Margot Capelier | Casting |
| Sound | Vladimir Cosma | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tanine Autré | Costume Design |
| Art | Jean André | Production Design |
| Camera | Henri Decaë | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Albert Jurgenson | Editor |
| Art | Claude Moesching | Art Direction |
