Umbrella Coup

Release Date: 1980-10-08

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.

Rating: 6.897 / 10

Cast

Pierre Richard

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

Valérie Mairesse

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

Christine Murillo

as Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire

Gérard Jugnot

as Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire

Gordon Mitchell

as Moskovitz, le tueur à gages