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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.
Alexander Scheer
Self - Narrator (voice)
Radoslaw Sikorski
Self - Interviewee
Martin Schulz
Self - Interviewee
Alexey Venediktov
Self - Interviewee
Bill Browder
Self - Interviewee
Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage)
Gerhard Schröder
Self (archive footage)
Alexey Miller
Self (archive footage)
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Self (archive footage)
Anna Politkovskaya
Self (archive footage)
Mikhail Saakashvili
Self (archive footage)
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Self (archive footage)
Hillary Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Faisal Islam
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Angela Merkel
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dmitry Medvedev
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Helmut Kohl
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Konrad Adenauer
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Willy Brandt
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Helmut Schmidt
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
King Charles III of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Margaret Thatcher
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John McCain
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Condoleezza Rice
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Göran Persson
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lech Wałęsa
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)