Umbrella Coup

Synopsis

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

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  Pierre Richard

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

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  Valérie Mairesse

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

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  Christine Murillo

  Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire

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  Gérard Jugnot

  Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire

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  Gordon Mitchell

  Moskovitz, le tueur à gages

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  Roger Carel

  Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison

See also

The Constant Gardener

Beginners

K-9

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof