A Thousand Billion Dollars
Feb 09 1982
•2h 12m
•Thriller
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.
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Patrick Dewaere
Paul Kerjean
Michel Auclair
Michel Saint-Claude
Caroline Cellier
Hélène Kerjean
Charles Denner
Walter, le détective
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