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Film / 1982
A Thousand Billion Dollars
Directed by
Henri Verneuil
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.
The story
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 DewaerePaul Kerjean
Michel AuclairMichel Saint-Claude, director of GTI-Europe
Caroline CellierHélène Kerjean
Charles DennerWalter, private detective
Anny DupereyLaura Weber, JBL's mistress
Jeanne MoreauMadame Benoît-Lambert
Mel FerrerCornelius A. Woaegen, president of GTI
Jean-Laurent CochetSerge Hartmann, director of La Tribune
Fernand LedouxMr. Guérande
André FalconPierre Bayen, editor-in-chief
Claude VernierDr. Gerhard Kramer
Édith ScobMadame Bronsky
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Jacques FrançoisFred Great
Robert PartyJacques Benoît-Lambert, aka 'JBL'
Jean-Pierre KalfonBronsky, then Stan Hankins, the informant
Jean MercureJoachim Holstein, Director of GTI-Austria
Claude MarcaultKerjean's secretary
Jacques MauryJack Sleiter, director of GTI
Jacqueline DoyenArlène Robert
Marc EyraudSylvestre
Jean ClaudioVittorio Orta, Director of GTI-Italy
Anthony StuartAccuser
Hans VernerKurt von Schroeder
Edward MarcusGTI controller
Pierre LondicheFrench interpreter in court
Camille ClavelBastien Kerjean
Edmond BernardRalph von Lübeck
Frédérique MeiningerConcierge
François ViaurHotel receptionist
Marie-Pierre CaseyMadame Benoît-Lambert's maid
Jacques DavidPolice commissioner
Marc FayolleEnthusiastic reader
Yaseen KhanSuta Burishawa
Roger ComteWaiter at the brasserie
Marie-Christine RollandSecretary of the Walter agency
Yvonne DanyGermaine Guérande (uncredited)
Rachid FerracheÉric Bronsky (uncredited)
Sacha LavinMadame Bayen (uncredited)
Fabienne MaiMadame Holstein (uncredited)
Bernard TachlThe follower (uncredited)
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