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.
Movie: Umbrella Coup
Top 10 Billed Cast
Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps
Sylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T.
Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire
Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire
Moskovitz, le tueur à gages
Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison
Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine
Le producteur de Paris
Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire
Juliette, la fleuriste, ex-femme non divorcée de Grégoire
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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.
Release Date
1980-10-08
Average
6.874
Rating:
3.4 startsTagline
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