MDR - Druzhba: The Friendship Pipeline (2021)

The Pipeline of the Century – How Soviet Natural Gas Came to the West. Today, more than 200,000 kilometres of natural gas pipelines invisibly connect Eastern and Western Europe. The lion's share of this gigantic construction was built under the toughest of conditions and highly sensitive political circumstances.
In the 1970s and 1980s, more than 25,000 GDR citizens worked in the Soviet Union. They are laying what was then the largest natural gas pipeline in the world. For the workers it is the adventure of a lifetime. Their "Trasse" cross the large and mighty rivers Dnepr and Dnestr. For the first time "Trassniks," the workers from the German Democratic Republic in the Soviet Union experience a touch of freedom that they do not feel in the GDR.

– AKA: Jahrhundertbauwerk Trasse