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Umbrella Coup (Le Coup du parapluie)

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Le Coup du parapluie
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Country Error creating thumbnail: File missing France
Directed by Gérard Oury
Release Date 1980
Language French
Studio Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont
Main Cast
Character Actor
Grégoire Lecomte Pierre Richard
Sylvette alias Bunny Valérie Mairesse
Moskovitz Gordon Mitchell
Otto Krampe Gert Fröbe



Umbrella Coup (Le coup du parapluie) is a french comedy film 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. Grégoire Lecomte (Pierre Richard), 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 (Gert Fröbe) 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.


The following weapons can be seen in Umbrella Coup:



MAS-49

The doctor (Mike Marshall) is in vain trying to kill Grégoire Lecomte with a his MAS-49 rifle with Scope.

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MAS-49/56
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M1911 pistol series

The hitman Moskovitz (Gordon Mitchell) uses to killing a M1911 pistol.

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Colt MK IV Series 70 - .45 ACP - 9x19mm
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Smith & Wesson Model 38

A police officer Sylvette (Valérie Mairesse) wears a Smith & Wesson Model 38 revolver.

Smith & Wesson Model 38 - 9x19mm

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Sylvette alias Bunny has a gun still ready at the bottom of her ladies cart.
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Sylvette fires a bullet into the forehead of the killer Moskovitz.

MAT-49 machine gun

Policemen are seen with a MAT-49 submachine guns.

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French MAT-49 Submachine Gun - 9x19mm
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Cops carrying a submachine guns come too late, Otto Krampe is dead.