"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."
Horst Krause
as Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski
Josef Bierbichler
as Franz-Josef Strauss
Hans Brenner
as Josef März
Rosel Zech
as Marianne Strauß
Hermann Lause
as Honecker
Gerhard Garbers
as Helmut Kohl
Hansi Jochmann
as Mrs. Mielke
Nino Korda
as Streibel
Jürgen Holtz
as Mielke
Uta Schorn
as Sigrid Schalck
Bernhard Schütz
as Jenninger
Traugott Buhre
as Schmidt-Goldstein
Gerd Udo Feller
as Waigel
Ludwig Boettger
as Stoiber
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Horst Königstein
Director
Torsten Schulz
Writer
Udo Franz
Director of Photography
Hans-Peter Ströer
Original Music Composer
Wiebke Koester
Editor
Adalbert Wiemers
Idea
Ursula Peters
Costume Designer
Brigitt Fellermann
Wolfgang Schünke
Production Design
Wolfgang Martin
Makeup Artist
Jürgen P. P. Meissner
Sound
Peter Techen
Klaus Matern
Sound Assistant
Johannes Anders
Assistant Camera
Bettina Bosse
Script Supervisor
Assistant Editor
Jürgen Millen
Key Grip
Stefan Schleiss
Claus Balkenhol
Lighting Technician
Werner Borkenhagen
Gerd Schleicher
Wolfgang Schulz
Property Master
Roswitha Bentmann
Ernst Sobotta
Wardrobe Master
Herbert Rauhaus
Construction Foreman
Alptekin Ergür
Assistant Production Design
Volker Meinhard
Graphic Designer
Animation
Hermann Winkelmann
Scientific Consultant
Peter Gitzinger
Holger Kunze
Assistant Director
Philipp von Sell
Kersten Rodhorst
Unit Manager
Katja Nienhaus
Fred Ilgner
Production Manager
Wulf-Dietrich Kaminski
Gebhard Henke
Commissioning Editor
Doris J. Heinze