A Thousand Billion Dollars

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.

Patrick Dewaere

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

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

Jean Claudio

(Vittorio Orta, Director of GTI-Italy)

Anthony Stuart

Hans Verner

(Kurt von Schroeder)

Edward Marcus

(GTI controller)

Pierre Londiche

(French interpreter in court)

Camille Clavel

(Bastien Kerjean)

Edmond Bernard

(Ralph von Lübeck)

Frédérique Meininger

François Viaur

(Hotel receptionist)

Marie-Pierre Casey

(Madame Benoît-Lambert's maid)

Jacques David

(Police commissioner)

Marc Fayolle

(Enthusiastic reader)

Yaseen Khan

(Suta Burishawa)

Roger Comte

(Waiter at the brasserie)

Marie-Christine Rolland

(Secretary of the Walter agency)

Yvonne Dany

(Germaine Guérande (uncredited))

Rachid Ferrache

(Éric Bronsky (uncredited))

Sacha Lavin

(Madame Bayen (uncredited))

Fabienne Mai

(Madame Holstein (uncredited))

Bernard Tachl

(The follower (uncredited))