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
The people behind it
Horst Krause
Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski
Josef Bierbichler
Franz-Josef Strauss
Hans Brenner
Josef März
Rosel Zech
Marianne Strauß
Hermann Lause
Honecker
Gerhard Garbers
Helmut Kohl
Hansi Jochmann
Mrs. Mielke
Nino Korda
Streibel
Jürgen Holtz
Mielke
Uta Schorn
Sigrid Schalck
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