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In the Grip of Gazprom
2023, Feb 07
1h 30m
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.
Directed by
Dirk Laabs
Written by
Dirk Laabs
Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dmitry Medvedev
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
King Charles III of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Margaret Thatcher
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Boris Yeltsin
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John McCain
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alexander Scheer
Self - Narrator (voice)
Angela Merkel
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hillary Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Condoleezza Rice
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Self (archive footage)
Helmut Kohl
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alexey Venediktov
Self - Interviewee
Konrad Adenauer
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Self (archive footage)
Lech Wałęsa
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Willy Brandt
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gerhard Schröder
Self (archive footage)
Martin Schulz
Self - Interviewee
Radoslaw Sikorski
Self - Interviewee
Göran Persson
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bill Browder
Self - Interviewee
Helmut Schmidt
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alexey Miller
Self (archive footage)
Mikhail Saakashvili
Self (archive footage)
Faisal Islam
Self (archive footage)
Jürgen Hambrecht
Self - Interviewee
Wolfgang Ischinger
Self - Interviewee
Andriy Kobolyev
Self - Interviewee
Angela Stent
Self - Interviewee
David L. Goldwin
Self - Interviewee
Matthias Warnig
Self - Interviewee
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Self - Interviewee
Frank Umbach
Self - Interviewee
Jonathan Stern
Self - Interviewee
Richard Anderson
Self - Interviewee
Daniel Yergin
Self - Interviewee
Don Carlos
Self - Interviewee
Guy Chazan
Self - Interviewee
Simon Chadwick
Self - Interviewee
Heather Conlay
Self - Interviewee
Benjamin Schmitt
Self - Interviewee
Jens Høvsgaard
Self - Interviewee
Suriya Jayanti
Self - Interviewee
Anna Politkovskaya
Self (archive footage)
Alexander Litvinenko
Self (archive footage)
Leonid Kravchuk
Self (archive footage)
Viktor Yushchenko
Self (archive footage)
Sergey Kupriyanov
Self (archive footage)
Alexander Medvedev
Self (archive footage)
Friedrich Späth
Self (archive footage)
Martin Bartenstein
Self (archive footage)
Thomas Reed
Self (archive footage)
Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen
Self (archive footage)
Zhanna Nemtsova
Self (archive footage)
Paavo Lipponen
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Viktor Yanukovych
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Glos
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wulf-Hinrich Bernotat
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hans Friderichs
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dmytro Firtash
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Valentin Falin
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
William J. Casey
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Burckhard Bergmann
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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