- Country: France
- Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
- Release: 1980-10-08
- Director: Gérard Oury
- Writers: Gérard Oury , Danièle Thompson
- Language: French
- Stars: Pierre Richard , Valérie Mairesse , Christine Murillo , Gordon Mitchell , Gérard Jugnot , Maurice Risch , Dominique Lavanant , Axelle Abbadie , Yaseen Khan , Didier Sauvegrain
- Runtime: 98 min
- Awards: 1 nomination
- AKA: Die Regenschirmmörder , Rana dáždnikom (Slovakia (Slovak Republic)) , The Umbrella Coup , Le coup du parapluie , A Maldição do Guarda-Chuva (Brazil) , Укол парасолькою (Ukraine) , The Umbrella Coup (United Kingdom) , Der Regenschirmmörder , El golpe del paraguas (Spain) , Удар с чадър (Bulgaria) , Esernyőtrükk (Hungary) , Le Coup du parapluie (France, French Republic) , El golpe del paraguas (Peru) , The Umbrella Coup (Canada) , Vihmavarjutorge (Estonia) , Χαζός, ξανθός εναντίον Χρυσοδάκτυλου (Greece) , Укол зонтиком , Rana dázdnikom , Umbrella Coup , O Golpe Secreto do Guarda-Chuva (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Le coup du parapluie (Canada) , Το πραξικόπημα της ομπρέλας (Greece) , The Umbrella Coup (United States of America) , Not Over My Dead Body (Hong Kong) , Hazos, xanthos enantion Hrysodaktylou (Greece) , Dūriens ar lietussargu (Latvia) , Duris skečiu (Lithuania) , Der Regenschirmmörder (Germany) , Den høye lyse med paraplyen (Norway) , The Umbrella Coup , Çilgin Yaris (Turkey) , Le coup du Parapluie Bulgare (France, French Republic) , O Golpe do Guarda-Chuva (Brazil) , Die Sache mit dem Regenschirm , L'ombrello bulgaro (Italy) , Zabójczy parasol (Poland) , Rána destníkem
- Plot:
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.
- IMDB:tt0080565
The Umbrella Coup Cast · · · ALL
Gérard Oury
Director
Pierre Richard
Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps
Valérie Mairesse
Sylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T.
Christine Murillo
Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire
Gérard Jugnot
Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire
Gordon Mitchell
Moskovitz, le tueur à gages
Roger Carel
Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison
Gert Fröbe
Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine
Maurice Risch
Le producteur de Paris
Dominique Lavanant
Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire
Axelle Abbadie
Juliette, la fleuriste, ex-femme non divorcée de Grégoire
Yaseen Khan
Radj Kahn, homme de main de La Baleine
Didier Sauvegrain
Stanislas Lefort, dit Constantin Patakis, alias Pierre Juvet, dit 'La Folle'
Mike Marshall
Le docteur, homme de main de La Baleine
Vittorio Caprioli
Don Barberini, mafioso italien
Tiberio Murgia
Lorenzo, homme de confiance de Don Barberini
Robert Dalban
Le régisseur du café-théâtre