Umbrella Coup (1980) — AI Story Visualization

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Plot Analysis Summary

A bumbling actor's mistaken identity triggers a chaotic chain of assassinations that he later turns into a successful film.

Story Structure — 4 Plot Phases

The Wrong Room Entry

Double Cross & Cleanup

Saint-Tropez Assassination War

Revelation & Premiere

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.

Directed by

Gérard Oury

Key Cast

Rating: 6.9/10 (192 votes)