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Umbrella Coup
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Umbrella Coup (original: 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:
M1911 pistol series
Smith & Wesson Model 38
MAT-49 machine gun
The police man uses a with MAT-49 machine gun.
MAS-49
The doctor (Mike Marshall) uses a MAS-49 rifle.
