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In the Grip of Gazprom

80 %|Feb 7, 2023|Documentary, History, TV 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.

Featured Crew

Dirk Laabs
Director
Dirk Laabs
Writer
Anna Sadovnikova
Co-Writer
Victor Coletta
Director of Photography
Christian Friedel
Director of Photography
Oliver Gurr
Director of Photography
Philipp Koepsell
Director of Photography
Konrad Kassing
Director of Photography

Cast

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