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Umbrella Coup

Genres
Comedy
Crime
Rating
6.9
StatusReleased
LanguagesFrançaisPусский
CountriesFrance
Release Date1980-10-08
Runtime95 mins

Overview

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 & Crew

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Pierre Richard

as Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps

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Valérie Mairesse

as Sylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T.

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Christine Murillo

as Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire

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Gérard Jugnot

as Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire

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Gordon Mitchell

as Moskovitz, le tueur à gages

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Roger Carel

as Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison

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Gert Fröbe

as Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine

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Maurice Risch

as Le producteur de Paris

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Dominique Lavanant

as Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire

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Axelle Abbadie

as Juliette, la fleuriste, ex-femme non divorcée de Grégoire

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Yaseen Khan

as Radj Kahn, homme de main de La Baleine

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Didier Sauvegrain

as Stanislas Lefort, dit Constantin Patakis, alias Pierre Juvet, dit 'La Folle'

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Mike Marshall

as Le docteur, homme de main de La Baleine

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Vittorio Caprioli

as Don Barberini, mafioso italien

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Tiberio Murgia

as Lorenzo, homme de confiance de Don Barberini

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Patrick Lecocq

as Le journaliste télé

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Robert Dalban

as Le régisseur du café-théâtre

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Georges Anderson

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Ceyla Lacerda

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

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Dominique Virton

as Le metteur en scène

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