Dicke Freunde
★ 8 · 1995 · 89m · Comedy · TV Movie
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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