The Umbrella Coup
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Director Gerard Oury Featured song Le Coup du parapluie Duration | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Crime Country France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 8 October 1980 Writer Gerard Oury, Daniele Thompson Cast (Grégoire Lecomte), (Sylvette, alias Bunny), Christine Murillo (Josyane Leblanc), (Frédo), (Moskovitz, le tueur)Similar movies 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.
Plot
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.
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References
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