Umbrella Coup (1980)

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 (20)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Pierre Richard

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

Valérie Mairesse

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

Christine Murillo

Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire

Gérard Jugnot

Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire

Gordon Mitchell

Moskovitz, le tueur à gages

Roger Carel

Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison

Gert Fröbe

Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine

Maurice Risch

Le producteur de Paris

Dominique Lavanant

Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire

Axelle Abbadie

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

Yaseen Khan

Radj Kahn, homme de main de La Baleine

Didier Sauvegrain

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

Mike Marshall

Le docteur, homme de main de La Baleine

Vittorio Caprioli

Don Barberini, mafioso italien

Tiberio Murgia

Lorenzo, homme de confiance de Don Barberini

Patrick Lecocq

Le journaliste télé

Robert Dalban

Le régisseur du café-théâtre

G

Georges Anderson

C

Ceyla Lacerda

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

D

Dominique Virton

Le metteur en scène

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