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.
Cast

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

Bernhard Schütz
Jenninger

Traugott Buhre
Schmidt-Goldstein
Gerd Udo Feller
Waigel
Ludwig Boettger
Stoiber

Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Crew

Horst Königstein
Director
Torsten Schulz
Writer
Wiebke Koester
Editor
Bettina Bosse
Assistant Editor, Script Supervisor
Udo Franz
Director of Photography
Gebhard Henke
Commissioning Editor
Doris J. Heinze
Commissioning Editor
Holger Kunze
Assistant Director
Philipp von Sell
Assistant Director
Wolfgang Schünke
Production Design
Johannes Anders
Assistant Camera
Ursula Peters
Costume Designer
Brigitt Fellermann
Costume Designer
Ernst Sobotta
Wardrobe Master
Volker Meinhard
Animation, Graphic Designer
Hermann Winkelmann
Animation, Graphic Designer
Wolfgang Martin
Makeup Artist
Klaus Matern
Sound Assistant
Jürgen P. P. Meissner
Sound
Peter Techen
Sound
Claus Balkenhol
Lighting Technician
Werner Borkenhagen
Lighting Technician
Gerd Schleicher
Lighting Technician
Hans-Peter Ströer
Original Music Composer
Herbert Rauhaus
Construction Foreman
Adalbert Wiemers
Scientific Consultant, Idea
Peter Gitzinger
Scientific Consultant
Wolfgang Schulz
Property Master
Roswitha Bentmann
Property Master
Alptekin Ergür
Assistant Production Design
Jürgen Millen
Key Grip
Stefan Schleiss
Key Grip
Fred Ilgner
Production Manager
Wulf-Dietrich Kaminski
Production Manager
Kersten Rodhorst
Unit Manager
Katja Nienhaus
Unit Manager