Kramer’s first full-length feature focuses on a group of young New York intellectuals and activists, one of whom has decided to assassinate the President in response to what he sees as the enormous criminality of the Vietnam War. His friends oppose his plan and try to persuade him that such an act would endanger the larger goals of their cause. French critic Jean-Pierre Jeancolas contrasted Kramer’s approach to that of Sidney Lumet, and hailed the new director and his astonishing team of actors for their “instantaneous portrait. . . perhaps the only true one of the intellectual left.” Shown at the controversial Cannes of May 1968, The Edge earned Kramer the Prix Georges Sadoul.