In the Grip of Gazprom
Gazprom - Die perfekte Waffe
The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become on Russian gas imports for decades and what Vladimir Putin was up to. However, no country needs more gas than Germany. It was only after Russia's invasion of the Ukraine that the German government realized that Russia had long used gas as a weapon to impose its will on states. The instrument created for this purpose is the natural gas production company GAZPROM. So how did Germany become so dependent on Russian gas? The documentary shows how, over several decades and several changes of government, a broad alliance of politicians and business representatives did everything possible to secure Germany's energy supply with cheap Russian gas, while the Kremlin's foreign policy became increasingly aggressive and the warnings of experts went unheeded.
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Alexander Scheer
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Radoslaw Sikorski
as Self - Interviewee
Martin Schulz
as Self - Interviewee
Alexey Venediktov
as Self - Interviewee
Bill Browder
as Self - Interviewee
Vladimir Putin
as Self (archive footage)
Gerhard Schröder
as Self (archive footage)
Alexey Miller
as Self (archive footage)
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
as Self (archive footage)
Anna Politkovskaya
as Self (archive footage)
Mikhail Saakashvili
as Self (archive footage)
Viktor Yushchenko
as Self (archive footage)
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
as Self (archive footage)
Hillary Clinton
as Self (archive footage)
Faisal Islam
as Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
Angela Merkel
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dmitry Medvedev
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Helmut Kohl
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Boris Yeltsin
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Konrad Adenauer
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Willy Brandt
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Helmut Schmidt
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John F. Kennedy
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mikhail Gorbachev
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nikita Khrushchev
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
King Charles III of the United Kingdom
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Margaret Thatcher
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
George W. Bush
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John McCain
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Condoleezza Rice
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Göran Persson
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lech Wałęsa
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Valentin Falin
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)