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Director
  
Gerard Oury

Featured song
  
Le Coup du parapluie

Duration
  

Language
  
French

6.6/10
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Genre
  
Comedy, Crime

Music director
  
Vladimir Cosma

Country
  
France

The Umbrella Coup movie poster

Release date
  
8 October 1980

Writer
  
Gerard Oury, Daniele Thompson

Cast
  
Pierre Richard
(Grégoire Lecomte),
Valérie Mairesse
(Sylvette, alias Bunny),
Christine Murillo
(Josyane Leblanc),
Gérard Jugnot
(Frédo),
Gordon Mitchell
(Moskovitz, le tueur)

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Directed by Gerard Oury, Pierre Richard movies, Comedies

The Umbrella Coup (French: Le Coup du parapluie) is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Pierre Richard, Gordon Mitchell and Gert Fröbe.

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The creation of the film was inspired by several assassinations of Bulgarian dissidents where the so-called Bulgarian umbrella was used as a weapon. The working title of the film was Le Coup du Parapluie Bulgare.

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Plot

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The unsuccessful actor Grégoire Lecomte is heading for a casting but then he takes a wrong turn. While he thinks he talks to casting director who wants an actor to play a henchman, he actually talks to a mafia don who wants a real killer. Lecomte's performance is convincing and consequently he receives a contract to finish off arms dealer Otto Krampe. He is supposed to kill Krampe with an umbrella containing a built-in syringe full of potassium cyanide at his birthday party in St-Tropez. Lecomte takes the don for a producer and believes this was all part of shooting a film.

Cast

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  • Pierre Richard as Grégoire Lecomte
  • Gordon Mitchell as Moskovitz
  • Valérie Mairesse as Sylvette a.k.a. Bunny
  • Christine Murillo as Josyane Leblanc
  • Gert Fröbe as Otto Krampe a.k.a. Whale
  • Gérard Jugnot as Frédo
  • Vittorio Caprioli as Don Barberini
  • Yaseen Khan as Radj Kahn
  • Didier Sauvegrain as Stanislas Lefort a.k.a. Crazy
  • Mike Marshall as the Doctor
  • Roger Carel as Salvatore Bozzoni
  • Dominique Lavanant as Mireille
  • Maurice Risch as the Producer

    • References

    The Umbrella Coup Wikipedia
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    The Umbrella Coup IMDb The Umbrella Coup themoviedb.org