The Umbrella Coup (French: Le Coup du parapluie) is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Pierre Richard, Gordon Mitchell and Gert Fröbe.[2]
The creation of the film was 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.
It was shot the Epinay Studios and on location around Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean André.
TheUmbrellaCoup (French: Le Coup du parapluie) is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Pierre Richard, Gordon Mitchell and Gert...
assassination method used, in the 1979 novel The Green Ripper by John D. MacDonald. The French film Le Coup du parapluie (TheUmbrellaCoup) directed by Gérard...
Dab. The French comedy TheUmbrellaCoup (O.T. "Le coup du parapluie"), a 1980s movie by Gérard Oury, uses the idea of a poison-injecting umbrella. Markov's...
for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films. Richard is considered by some, such as Louis de Funès and Gérard Depardieu, to be one of the greatest...
exploitation (Achtung! The Desert Tigers! -1977), sexploitation (Porno-Erotic Western - 1979), French criminal comedy (TheUmbrellaCoup - 1980), and post-apocalyptic...
The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led...
The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Soviet Union's Communist Party to forcibly...
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Russell's; characters often defined by the adjective BCBG, bon chic bon genre, and which refers to a particular stereotype of the French upper middle class – to...
directeur de l'asile Jupiter's Thigh (1980) as Sacharias, le conservateur TheUmbrellaCoup (1980) as Salvatore Bozzoni Signé Furax (1981) as Grigor Sokolodovenko...
of sit-in street protests, often called theUmbrella Revolution and sometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement, or Occupy Movement, occurred...
(1972) Love at the Top (1974) The Porter from Maxim's (1976) The Seventh Company Outdoors (1977) The Wonderful Day (1980) TheUmbrellaCoup (1980) La Fin...
transsexual. Transgender is also an umbrella term; in addition to including people whose gender identity is the opposite of their assigned sex (trans...
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worked with the troupe on stage and in films, but are not part of the collective. The café-théâtre was located in the Rue des Lombards in the 4th arrondissement...
gardien de la propriété de Foron The Medic (1979) - Le soldat du convoi Les sous-doués (1980) - Mohammed TheUmbrellaCoup (1980) - (uncredited) Cherchez...