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‘Patient #1,’ About a Russian Leader’s Fall From Power, Wins Werner Herzog Film Award (Exclusive)
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Rezo Gigineishvili’s “Patient #1” is the 2023 winner of the annual Werner Herzog Film Award.

Set at the end of the Soviet era, the film focuses on the decline in power of Konstantin Chernenko, a Russian leader with failing health who is surrounded by a large medical team. He is old and frail, but has a tight grip on power. He is waging a war in Afghanistan, has a nuclear button and can take the entire world to the grave with him. It is convenient for both the elites and the secret services to keep the leader alive and various groups are scoring political points.

The cast includes Aleksandr Filippenko, Olga Makeeva, Inna Churikova, Igor Chernevich and Sergey Gilev. The film is produced by Archil Gelovani, Sergey Yahontov for Georgian outfit Independent Film Project.

Gigineishvili previously directed “Hostages” (2017) which premiered at the Berlinale and participated in more than 30 international film festivals including Telluride,...
See full article at Variety Film + TV
  • 9/27/2023
  • by Naman Ramachandran
  • Variety Film + TV
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'Beleaguered leader!' Mikhail Gorbachev in the world of thrillers (Ians Column: Bookends)
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It may well be an unconscious impulse but the writers are directly or indirectly influenced by their socio-political millieu, even when opposing it, and you don’t need to be a Marxist to acknowledge that.

As Edward Said showed in his examination of ‘Orientalism’, or recent works showcasing the overt or covert politics of such literary figures as William Wordsworth (Jonathan Bate’s "Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World") and Jane Austen, politics can intrude into the poetic realm or comedies of manners — or other forms of fiction, too. And this can span the entire gamut from literary classics to pulp fiction.

The Cold War is a fitting example. As two contrasting systems of social and political organisation vied for global influence, the conflict for influencing hearts and minds underpinned the diplomatic and military manoeuvres.

Duncan White’s "Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War" (2019) offers...
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  • 9/4/2022
  • by Glamsham Bureau
  • GlamSham
Mikhail Gorbachev, Last Leader Of The Soviet Union, Dies At 91
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the Russian politician who was the last leader of the Soviet Union before its dissolution, passed away at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow yesterday.

Doctors said Gorbachev had been under supervision there since 2020 due to a “severe and prolonged illness,” that finally took his life at the age of 91.

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He was the longest-living Russian leader in history, surpassing past leaders Alexander Kerensky and Vasily Kustenov by two years. He was known in his period of leadership for eventually accepting social democracy and making reforms to Soviet Union before its dissolution, including withdrawing from a long conflict in Afghanistan, working to limit nuclear weapons production and ending the Cold War.

Gorbachev was of the most prominent figures of 20th-century international politics. He was both praised for ending the decades-long Cold War and providing Russians with new economic freedoms, but...
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  • 9/1/2022
  • by Jacob Linden
  • Uinterview
Mikhail Gorbachev Dies: Last Leader Of Soviet Union Was 91
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Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the 20th century’s most consequential world leaders, who ushered in an era of reform in the Soviet Union and played a role in ending the Cold War with the West, has died, Russian state media and other outlets reported on Tuesday. He was 91.

Russian state TV said that Gorbachev died after a “long and grave illness.”

Hollywood & Media Deaths 2022: A Photo Gallery

The subject of one of President Ronald Reagan’s most famous quotes – “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” from Berlin in 1987 – he led the Ussr from March 1985 until its collapse in late 1991, first as General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party and later as its president starting in March 1990.

Being the last leader of the Soviet Union colored his legacy for many of the country’s citizens, but his tenure saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and the lifting of the Iron Curtain.
See full article at Deadline Film + TV
  • 8/30/2022
  • by Ted Johnson and Erik Pedersen
  • Deadline Film + TV
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