After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.
Acting
Jean Yanne's unhinged, sweaty desperation as Carrier
Direction
Jessua's claustrophobic framing of a nobody's delusions of grandeur
Director
Alain Jessua
Alain Delon
Dr. Michel Ambrose
Jean Yanne
Louis Carrier
Renato Salvatori
Albert
Marie Déa
Gisèle Valin
Michel Creton
Bob
Robert Dalban
Le chauffeur de taxi
Gabriel Cattand
Jimmy Laurent
Guy Saint-Jean
Dupré
Fernand Guiot
Le policier à Ostende
Georges Riquier
Un membre de la préfecture de police
Alan Adair
Le ministre anglais de l'Industrie
Rosario Borelli
Le policier italien
Philippe Chemin
Le prostitué belge
Michèle Cotta
La journaliste TV
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released the same year as Star Wars and Close Encounters, this French thriller bombed and vanished into obscurity.
Jessua intended Carrier as a critique of media-age narcissism before social media existed—he just needed a lunatic with a typewriter instead of a phone.
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