In the Grip of Gazprom (2023)
1h 30m
Running Time
February 7, 2023Release Date
In the Grip of Gazprom (2023)
1h 30m
Running Time
February 7, 2023Release Date
Network & Production Companies






Plot.
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 & Crew.

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
Self (archive footage)

Angela Merkel
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dmitry Medvedev
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Helmut Kohl
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Boris Yeltsin
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)

Paavo Lipponen
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lech Wałęsa
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Viktor Yanukovych
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Michael Glos
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Wulf-Hinrich Bernotat
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hans Friderichs
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dmytro Firtash
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Valentin Falin
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

William J. Casey
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Burckhard Bergmann
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dirk Laabs
Director / Writer

Christian Friedel
Director of Photography

Barbara Schmitz
Commissioning Editor

Patrick Brandt
Director of Photography

Jan Strauß
Editor

Jano Leiermann
Production Manager

Wolfram Gumbert-Brewitt
Production Manager

Matthias Greving
Producer

Hagen Schöne
Editor

Oliver Gurr
Director of Photography

Victor Coletta
Director of Photography

Konrad Kassing
Director of Photography

Dieter Stürmer
Director of Photography

Holger Schnitzer
Director of Photography

Kay Siering
Producer

Andrzej Król
Director of Photography

Kirsten Lukaczik
Line Producer

Anna Sadovnikova
Co-Writer

Axel Baumann
Director of Photography

Pauline Wegesin
Production Manager

Franziska Ziemann
Production Manager

Manuel Tanduo
Line Producer

Dirk Neuhoff
Commissioning Editor

Gregor Perle
Director of Photography

Carsten Rocker
Music

Philipp Koepsell
Director of Photography

Arno Schumann
Editor
Media.

Details.
Release DateFebruary 7, 2023
Original NameGazprom - Die perfekte Waffe
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 30m
Genres
Last updated:
This Movie Is About.
germany
society
investigation
current affairs
geopolitical
russie
political documentary
contemporary history
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