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Umbrella Coup

AdventureComedyCrimePG

Duration

1h 35m

Release

8 Oct 1980

Country

France

Language

French

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.

Plot

A womanizer balances his wife, mistress, and love interest.

Cast

Pierre RichardValérie MairesseChristine Murillo

Ratings

Internet Movie Database: 6.6/10

Details

Director

Gérard Oury

Writers

Gérard OuryDanièle Thompson

Awards

1 nomination
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