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Gazprom - Die perfekte Waffe

Movie - 90mins

DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie

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.

Rating: 8

Cast:

name

Hans

Friderichs

name

Dmytro

Firtash

name

Valentin

Falin

name

William

J.

name

Burckhard

Bergmann

name

Alexander

Scheer

name

Jürgen

Hambrecht

name

Wolfgang

Ischinger

name

Radoslaw

Sikorski

name

Andriy

Kobolyev

name

Angela

Stent

name

Martin

Schulz

name

David

L.

name

Matthias

Warnig

name

Margarita

M.

name

Frank

Umbach

name

Jonathan

Stern

name

Alexey

Venediktov

name

Richard

Anderson

name

Daniel

Yergin

name

Don

Carlos

name

Guy

Chazan

name

Bill

Browder

name

Simon

Chadwick

name

Heather

Conlay

name

Benjamin

Schmitt

name

Jens

Høvsgaard

name

Suriya

Jayanti

name

Vladimir

Putin

name

Gerhard

Schröder

name

Alexey

Miller

name

Mikhail

Khodorkovsky

name

Anna

Politkovskaya

name

Alexander

Litvinenko

name

Mikhail

Saakashvili

name

Leonid

Kravchuk

name

Viktor

Yushchenko

name

Sergey

Kupriyanov

name

Alexander

Medvedev

name

Frank-Walter

Steinmeier

name

Friedrich

Späth

name

Martin

Bartenstein

name

Hillary

Clinton

name

Faisal

Islam

name

Thomas

Reed

name

Pia

Ahrenkilde

name

Zhanna

Nemtsova

name

Ronald

Reagan

name

Angela

Merkel

name

Dmitry

Medvedev

name

Helmut

Kohl

name

Boris

Yeltsin

name

Konrad

Adenauer

name

Willy

Brandt

name

Helmut

Schmidt

name

John

F.

name

Mikhail

Gorbachev

name

Nikita

Khrushchev

name

King

Charles

name

Margaret

Thatcher

name

George

W.

name

John

McCain

name

Condoleezza

Rice

name

Göran

Persson

name

Paavo

Lipponen

name

Lech

Wałęsa

name

Viktor

Yanukovych

name

Michael

Glos

name

Wulf-Hinrich

Bernotat

name

Hans

Friderichs

name

Dmytro

Firtash

name

Valentin

Falin

name

William

J.

name

Burckhard

Bergmann

name

Alexander

Scheer

name

Jürgen

Hambrecht

name

Wolfgang

Ischinger

name

Radoslaw

Sikorski

name

Andriy

Kobolyev