In the Grip of Gazprom (2023)
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.
Director: Dirk Laabs
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Alexander Scheer as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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Jürgen Hambrecht as Self - Interviewee |
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Wolfgang Ischinger as Self - Interviewee |
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Radoslaw Sikorski as Self - Interviewee |
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Andriy Kobolyev as Self - Interviewee |
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Angela Stent as Self - Interviewee |
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Martin Schulz as Self - Interviewee |
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David L. Goldwin as Self - Interviewee |
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Matthias Warnig as Self - Interviewee |
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Margarita M. Balmaceda as Self - Interviewee |
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Frank Umbach as Self - Interviewee |
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Jonathan Stern as Self - Interviewee |
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Alexey Venediktov as Self - Interviewee |
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Richard Anderson as Self - Interviewee |
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Daniel Yergin as Self - Interviewee |
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Don Carlos as Self - Interviewee |
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Guy Chazan as Self - Interviewee |
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Bill Browder as Self - Interviewee |
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Simon Chadwick as Self - Interviewee |
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Heather Conlay as Self - Interviewee |
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Benjamin Schmitt as Self - Interviewee |
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Jens Høvsgaard as Self - Interviewee |
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Suriya Jayanti as Self - Interviewee |
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Vladimir Putin as Self (archive footage) |
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Gerhard Schröder as Self (archive footage) |
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Alexey Miller as Self (archive footage) |
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky as Self (archive footage) |
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Anna Politkovskaya as Self (archive footage) |
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Alexander Litvinenko as Self (archive footage) |
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Mikhail Saakashvili as Self (archive footage) |
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Leonid Kravchuk as Self (archive footage) |
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Viktor Yushchenko as Self (archive footage) |
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Sergey Kupriyanov as Self (archive footage) |
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Alexander Medvedev as Self (archive footage) |
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Frank-Walter Steinmeier as Self (archive footage) |
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Friedrich Späth as Self (archive footage) |
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Martin Bartenstein as Self (archive footage) |
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Hillary Clinton as Self (archive footage) |
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Faisal Islam as Self (archive footage) |
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Thomas Reed as Self (archive footage) |
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Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen as Self (archive footage) |
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Zhanna Nemtsova as Self (archive footage) |
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Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage) |
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Angela Merkel as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Dmitry Medvedev as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Helmut Kohl as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Boris Yeltsin as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Konrad Adenauer as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Willy Brandt as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Helmut Schmidt as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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John F. Kennedy as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Mikhail Gorbachev as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Nikita Khrushchev as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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King Charles III of the United Kingdom as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Margaret Thatcher as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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George W. Bush as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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John McCain as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Condoleezza Rice as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Göran Persson as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Paavo Lipponen as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Lech Wałęsa as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Viktor Yanukovych as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Michael Glos as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Wulf-Hinrich Bernotat as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Hans Friderichs as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Dmytro Firtash as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Valentin Falin as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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William J. Casey as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Burckhard Bergmann as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Directing | Dirk Laabs | Director |
| Camera | Christian Friedel | Director of Photography |
| Crew | Barbara Schmitz | Commissioning Editor |
| Camera | Patrick Brandt | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Jan Strauß | Editor |
| Production | Jano Leiermann | Production Manager |
| Production | Wolfram Gumbert-Brewitt | Production Manager |
| Production | Matthias Greving | Producer |
| Editing | Hagen Schöne | Editor |
| Writing | Dirk Laabs | Writer |
| Camera | Oliver Gurr | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Victor Coletta | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Konrad Kassing | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Dieter Stürmer | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Holger Schnitzer | Director of Photography |
| Production | Kay Siering | Producer |
| Camera | Andrzej Król | Director of Photography |
| Production | Kirsten Lukaczik | Line Producer |
| Writing | Anna Sadovnikova | Co-Writer |
| Camera | Axel Baumann | Director of Photography |
| Production | Pauline Wegesin | Production Manager |
| Production | Franziska Ziemann | Production Manager |
| Production | Manuel Tanduo | Line Producer |
| Crew | Dirk Neuhoff | Commissioning Editor |
| Camera | Gregor Perle | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Carsten Rocker | Music |
| Camera | Philipp Koepsell | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Arno Schumann | Editor |
