- The Umbrella Coup
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name = The Umbrella Coup
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director =Gérard Oury
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writer = Gérard OuryDanièle Thompson
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starring =Pierre Richard Gordon Mitchell Gert Fröbe
music =Vladimir Cosma
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distributor =Gaumont
released = flagicon|FranceOctober 8 ,1980
runtime = 98 min
country =France
language = French
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amg_id = 1:149499
imdb_id = 0080565"The Umbrella Coup" ( _fr. Le Coup du parapluie) is a 1980 French
comedy film directed byGérard Oury , starringPierre Richard ,Gordon Mitchell andGert Fröbe .The creation of the film was inspired by several assassinations of
Bulgaria ndissident s where so-calledBulgarian umbrella was used as a criminal instrument. The working title of the film was "Le Coup du Parapluie Bulgare".Plot
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 theumbrella with a built-insyringe withpotassium cyanide . Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.Cast
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Pierre Richard — Grégoire Lecomte
*Gordon Mitchell — Moskovitz
*Valérie Mairesse — Sylvette aka Bunny
*Christine Murillo — Josyane Leblanc
*Gert Fröbe — Otto Krampe aka Whale
*Gérard Jugnot — Frédo
*Vittorio Caprioli — Don Barberini
*Yaseen Khan — Radj Kahn
*Didier Sauvegrain — Stanislas Lefort aka Crazy
*Mike Marshall — The Doctor
*Roger Carel — Salvatore Bozzoni
*Dominique Lavanant — Mireille
*Maurice Risch — The ProducerExternal links
*imdb title|0080565|The Umbrella Coup
* [http://www.cinemovies.fr/fiche_film.php?IDfilm=1394 The Umbrella Coup/Le Coup du parapluie] at the Cinemovies site
* [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/149499/Le-Coup-du-Parapluie/overview The Umbrella Coup] overview at the New York Times
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