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Umbrella Coup (1980) [N/A]

Release Date:
October 8, 1980

Original Title:
Le Coup du parapluie

Alternate Titles:
De Eerste Klap Is 'n Daalder Waard
Die Sache mit dem Regenschirm
Le Coup Du Parapluie
Umbrella Coup
Укол зонтиком

Genres:
Comedy | Crime

Production Companies:
Gaumont
Gaumont International

Production Countries:
France

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12  FR: TP 

Runtime: 95

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Art Direction:
Claude Moesching

Casting:
Margot Capelier

Costume Design:
Tanine Autré
Jacques Fonteray

Director:
Gérard Oury

Director of Photography:
Henri Decaë

Editor:
Albert Jurgenson

Original Music Composer:
Vladimir Cosma

Production Design:
Jean André

Set Decoration:
Antonio Román

Writer:
Danièle Thompson
Gérard Oury

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