Umbrella Coup

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Umbrella Coup is a 1980 comedy and crime movie directed by Gérard Oury. It stars Pierre Richard, Valérie Mairesse and Christine Murillo. It runs 1h 35m. TMDB users rate it 6.9 out of 10.

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.