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