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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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Oct 10, 1980
Director
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Studio
Gaumont, Gaumont International
Original Title
Le Coup du parapluie
Original Language
French
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Cast
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Pierre Richard
Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps
V
Valérie Mairesse
Sylvette, alias Bunny, inspecteur à la D.S.T.
C
Christine Murillo
Josyane Leblanc, contractuelle parisienne, régulière de Grégoire
G
Gérard Jugnot
Frédo, agent artistique de Grégoire
G
Gordon Mitchell
Moskovitz, le tueur à gages
R
Roger Carel
Salvatore Bozzoni, couturier et fournisseur de poison
G
Gert Fröbe
Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine
M
Maurice Risch
Le producteur de Paris
D
Dominique Lavanant
Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire
A
Axelle Abbadie
Juliette, la fleuriste, ex-femme non divorcée de Grégoire
Y
Yaseen Khan
Radj Kahn, homme de main de La Baleine
D
Didier Sauvegrain
Stanislas Lefort, dit Constantin Patakis, alias Pierre Juvet, dit 'La Folle'
M
Mike Marshall
Le docteur, homme de main de La Baleine
V
Vittorio Caprioli
Don Barberini, mafioso italien
T
Tiberio Murgia
Lorenzo, homme de confiance de Don Barberini
R
Robert Dalban
Le régisseur du café-théâtre
G
Georges Anderson
C
Ceyla Lacerda
Mannequin brésilienne, 2nd épouse de Pierre (archive footage)
D
Dominique Virton
Le metteur en scène
