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In the Grip of Gazprom
Gazprom - Die perfekte Waffe
Documentary
History

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.

2023-02-07
de
Cast
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)