In the Grip of Gazprom

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.

Alexander Scheer

Self - Narrator (voice)

Jürgen Hambrecht

Self - Interviewee

Wolfgang Ischinger

Self - Interviewee

Radoslaw Sikorski

Self - Interviewee

Andriy Kobolyev

Self - Interviewee

Angela Stent

Self - Interviewee

Martin Schulz

Self - Interviewee

David L. Goldwin

Self - Interviewee

Matthias Warnig

Self - Interviewee

Margarita M. Balmaceda

Self - Interviewee

Frank Umbach

Self - Interviewee

Jonathan Stern

Self - Interviewee

Alexey Venediktov

Self - Interviewee

Richard Anderson

Self - Interviewee

Daniel Yergin

Self - Interviewee

Don Carlos

Self - Interviewee

Guy Chazan

Self - Interviewee

Bill Browder

Self - Interviewee

Simon Chadwick

Self - Interviewee

Heather Conlay

Self - Interviewee

Benjamin Schmitt

Self - Interviewee

Jens Høvsgaard

Self - Interviewee

Suriya Jayanti

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)

Alexander Litvinenko

Self (archive footage)

Mikhail Saakashvili

Self (archive footage)

Leonid Kravchuk

Self (archive footage)

Viktor Yushchenko

Self (archive footage)

Sergey Kupriyanov

Self (archive footage)

Alexander Medvedev

Self (archive footage)

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Self (archive footage)

Friedrich Späth

Self (archive footage)

Martin Bartenstein

Self (archive footage)

Hillary Clinton

Self (archive footage)

Faisal Islam

Self (archive footage)

Thomas Reed

Self (archive footage)

Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen

Self (archive footage)

Zhanna Nemtsova

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan