Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1980


The Umbrella Coup

Buy The Umbrella Coup now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




'The Umbrella Coup' is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Grard Oury, starring Pierre Richard, Gordon Mitchell and Gert Frbe.

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 Andr.

Plot



The unsuccessful actor Grgoire 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



*Pierre Richard as Grgoire Lecomte

*Gordon Mitchell as Moskovitz

*Valrie Mairesse as Sylvette Bunny

*Christine Murillo as Josyane Leblanc

*Gert Frbe as Otto Krampe a.k.a. Whale

*Grard Jugnot as Frdo

*Vittorio Caprioli as Don Barberini

*Yaseen Khan as Radj Kahn

*Didier Sauvegrain as Stanislas Lefort a.k.a. Crazy

*Mike Marshall as the Doctor

*Roger Carel as Salvatore Bozzoni

*Dominique Lavanant as Mireille

*Maurice Risch as the Producer

See also



*'Never a Dull Moment' (1968)

References




Buy The Umbrella Coup now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 1980



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1110733344.