08 Jun 1995
Canadian Bacon
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
Dicke Freunde
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.
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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)
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