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Umbrella Coup

6.9 95 mins Comedy   Crime   1980
Gaumont   Gaumont International  
Director(s): Gérard Oury

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.

Casts of Umbrella Coup

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'

Mike Marshall

as Le docteur, homme de main de La Baleine

Vittorio Caprioli

as Don Barberini, mafioso italien

Tiberio Murgia

as Lorenzo, homme de confiance de Don Barberini

Patrick Lecocq

as Le journaliste télé

Robert Dalban

as Le régisseur du café-théâtre

Ceyla Lacerda

as Mannequin brésilienne, 2nd épouse de Pierre (archive footage)

Dominique Virton

as Le metteur en scène

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