A Thousand Billion Dollars (1982)

6.9/10 132 min Thriller

Overview

A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determined to expose the truth, he races against time to gather evidence before more lives—and his own—are at stake.

Cast

Patrick Dewaere

Paul Kerjean

Michel Auclair

Michel Saint-Claude, director of GTI-Europe

Caroline Cellier

Hélène Kerjean

Charles Denner

Walter, private detective

Anny Duperey

Laura Weber, JBL's mistress

Jeanne Moreau

Madame Benoît-Lambert

Mel Ferrer

Cornelius A. Woaegen, president of GTI

Jean-Laurent Cochet

Serge Hartmann, director of La Tribune

Fernand Ledoux

Mr. Guérande

André Falcon

Pierre Bayen, editor-in-chief

Claude Vernier

Dr. Gerhard Kramer

Édith Scob

Madame Bronsky

Jacques François

Fred Great

Robert Party

Jacques Benoît-Lambert, aka 'JBL'

Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Bronsky, then Stan Hankins, the informant

Jean Mercure

Joachim Holstein, Director of GTI-Austria

Claude Marcault

Kerjean's secretary

Jacques Maury

Jack Sleiter, director of GTI

Jacqueline Doyen

Arlène Robert

Marc Eyraud

Sylvestre

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