In the Grip of Gazprom
07/02/2023
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)
Jürgen Hambrecht
as Self - Interviewee
Wolfgang Ischinger
as Self - Interviewee
Radoslaw Sikorski
as Self - Interviewee
Andriy Kobolyev
as Self - Interviewee
Angela Stent
as Self - Interviewee
Martin Schulz
as Self - Interviewee
David L. Goldwin
as Self - Interviewee
Matthias Warnig
as Self - Interviewee
Margarita M. Balmaceda
as Self - Interviewee
Frank Umbach
as Self - Interviewee
Jonathan Stern
as Self - Interviewee
Alexey Venediktov
as Self - Interviewee
Richard Anderson
as Self - Interviewee
Daniel Yergin
as Self - Interviewee
Don Carlos
as Self - Interviewee
Guy Chazan
as Self - Interviewee
Bill Browder
as Self - Interviewee
Simon Chadwick
as Self - Interviewee
Heather Conlay
as Self - Interviewee
Benjamin Schmitt
as Self - Interviewee
Jens Høvsgaard
as Self - Interviewee
Suriya Jayanti
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)
Alexander Litvinenko
as Self (archive footage)
Mikhail Saakashvili
as Self (archive footage)
Leonid Kravchuk
as Self (archive footage)
Viktor Yushchenko
as Self (archive footage)
Sergey Kupriyanov
as Self (archive footage)
Alexander Medvedev
as Self (archive footage)
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
as Self (archive footage)
Friedrich Späth
as Self (archive footage)
Martin Bartenstein
as Self (archive footage)
Hillary Clinton
as Self (archive footage)
Faisal Islam
as Self (archive footage)
Thomas Reed
as Self (archive footage)
Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen
as Self (archive footage)
Zhanna Nemtsova
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)
Paavo Lipponen
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lech Wałęsa
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Viktor Yanukovych
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Glos
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wulf-Hinrich Bernotat
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hans Friderichs
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dmytro Firtash
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Valentin Falin
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
William J. Casey
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Burckhard Bergmann
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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