

Gazprom - Die perfekte Waffe
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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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


















