The Umbrella Coup

The Umbrella Coup

Infobox Film
name = The Umbrella Coup


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director = Gérard Oury
producer =
writer = Gérard Oury
Danièle Thompson
narrator =
starring = Pierre Richard
Gordon Mitchell
Gert Fröbe
music = Vladimir Cosma
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = Gaumont
released = flagicon|France October 8, 1980
runtime = 98 min
country = France
language = French
budget =
gross =
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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 by Gérard Oury, starring Pierre Richard, Gordon Mitchell and Gert Fröbe.

The creation of the film was inspired by several assassinations of Bulgarian dissidents where so-called Bulgarian 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 the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.

Cast

*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 Producer

External 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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