The Umbrella Coup
Film poster
Directed byGérard Oury
Written byGérard Oury
Danièle Thompson
Produced byAlain Poiré
StarringPierre Richard
Gordon Mitchell
Gert Fröbe
CinematographyHenri Decaë
Edited byAlbert Jurgenson
Music byVladimir Cosma
Production
company
Gaumont International
Distributed byGaumont
Release date
8 October 1980
Running time
98 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$18.4 million[1]

The Umbrella Coup (French: Le Coup du parapluie) is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Pierre Richard, Gordon Mitchell and Gert Fröbe.[2]

The creation of the film was inspired by several assassinations of Bulgarian dissidents where the so-called Bulgarian umbrella was used as a weapon. The working title of the film was Le Coup du Parapluie Bulgare.

It was shot the Epinay Studios and on location around Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean André.

Plot

The unsuccessful actor Grégoire Lecomte is heading for a casting but then he takes a wrong turn. While he thinks he talks to casting director who wants an actor to play a henchman, he actually talks to a mafia don who wants a real killer. Lecomte's performance is convincing and consequently he receives a contract to finish off arms dealer Otto Krampe. He is supposed to kill Krampe with an umbrella containing a built-in syringe full of potassium cyanide at his birthday party in St-Tropez. Lecomte takes the don for a producer and believes this was all part of shooting a film.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Le Coup du parapluie (1980) - JPBox-Office".
  2. ↑ "Umbrella Coup". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2013-07-27.


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