
Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Filming locations
Filmed in Nice, Cannes and Saint-Tropez
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Inspired by
Inspired by Bulgarian umbrella
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Setting
Set in Saint-Tropez and Paris
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Music
Music by Vladimir Cosma
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Henri Decaë
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Danièle ThompsonWriter
- Gérard OuryWriter
- Original title
- Le Coup du parapluie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 8, 1980
- Original language
- French
- Countries
- France





































