Political satire about the billion-euro loan to the GDR in 1983, which was arranged by Franz-Josef Strauß and Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski to save a bankrupt bank.
Social & External
Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski
Franz-Josef Strauss
Josef März
Marianne Strauß
Honecker
Helmut Kohl
Mrs. Mielke
Streibel
Mielke
Sigrid Schalck
Jenninger
Schmidt-Goldstein
Waigel
Stoiber
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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