Bischofferode. Das Treuhand Trauma (2018)
• July 5th, 2018 • 1h 30min
Documentary
Overview
In 1990, when Bischofferode entered the market economy, potash production in East Germany was in third place in the world's export ranking and in West Germany in fourth place. Bischofferöder Kalisalz is of a special quality and the plant therefore had loyal customers in Western Europe, especially in Scandinavia, even before the fall of the Wall. In the West, there is a major competitor - BASF subsidiary Kali und Salz AG from Kassel. The film reconstructs the mega-deal in one of the world's most important raw materials markets. The so-called potash merger was the biggest economic deal of German reunification, which has cost the taxpayer almost two billion euros to date. The Free State of Thuringia - the federal state with the best potash deposits in Germany - is still the big loser of the mega-deal today. Thuringia may be rich, but it loses almost all its potash mines, along with Bischofferode, and now has to spend millions of euros each year to rehabilitate and secure its mines.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Westray
Released on: 2001-09-14
Documentary
In this feature documentary, filmmaker Paul Cowan offers an innovative, moving account of the Westra...
Harlan County U.S.A.
Released on: 1977-01-23
Documentary
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Compan...
The Cost of Cobalt
Released on: 2021-03-31
Documentary
In the cobalt mining areas of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), babies are bein...
Under the Cloud
Released on: 2023-08-30
Documentary
An investigation into the unfolding history of nuclear testing, uranium mining, and nuclear waste di...
Talvivaaran miehet
Released on: 2015-01-27
Documentary
Documentary about a Finnish mining company struggling with production and environmental management p...
100
Released on: 1971-06-13
Documentary
Push-ups to the rhythm of a metronome, a meter counting backward from 100; three words are shouted t...
The Concert for Bangladesh
Released on: 1972-03-23
Music, Documentary
A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for...
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
Released on: 1983-11-15
Documentary
Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale dev...
Mountain of Gold
Released on: 2025-04-06
Documentary
Gold fever has gripped northern Niger. In search of the precious metal, and despite the risks, an ar...
Im Westen ging die Sonne auf
Released on: 2002-10-22
Documentary
The mining industry, which always had been “sponsor” and “financier” of the soccer clubs in the Ruhr...
Eye of the Storm
Released on: 1997-01-01
Documentary
A documentary about Nain, a Labrador Inuit community located near the world's largest nickel and cop...
Gold Blooded
Released on: 2018-02-07
Documentary
Dakota Fred Hurt, Dustin Hurt and the Richardson brothers battle nature, time, and death itself to s...
Malartic
Released on: 2024-02-28
Documentary, Drama
Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic ...
The Creek Runs Red
Released on: 2007-11-20
Documentary
The town of Picher, Oklahoma, was once home to the world's richest lead and zinc mining field. After...
Scenes from the Blackjewel Miners Blockade
Released on: 2020-01-30
Documentary
In July of 2019 the Blackjewel coal company announced it was declaring bankruptcy. Miners were told ...
A Handful of Salt
Released on: 2011-11-12
Documentary
A documentary that focuses on the craftspeople who continue to make salt with a technique called Age...