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The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 3 nominations total
Leonid Brezhnev
- Self
- (archive footage)
Raisa Gorbacheva
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva)
Yuri Andropov
- Self
- (archive footage)
Konstantin Chernenko
- Self
- (archive footage)
Andrei Gromyko
- Self
- (archive footage)
George Bush
- Self
- (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher
- Self
- (archive footage)
Helmut Kohl
- Self
- (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
- Self
- (archive footage)
James A. Baker
- Self
- (as James Baker)
Boris Yeltsin
- Self
- (archive footage)
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Did you know
- TriviaMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was the 12th General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-1991) and the eighth and last President of the Soviet Union from 1990 until 1991.
- Quotes
Himself - Interviewer and Narrator: I would like to hear what should be on your grave stone.
Mikhail Gorbachev: We tried
- ConnectionsReferences Gorbachev. After Empire (2001)
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Werner Herzog interviews Soviet Russia's last president Mikhail Gorbachev, while exploring his life & political career.
I wished the documentary covered more about Russia's power struggle and internal issues at the time than just the big headlines about end of cold war & fall of berlin wall that we could probably get from online archives. But anyway, listening to Herzog's chilling voice with deadpan humor is always a joy. He is the best narrator in the world indeed (sorry, Morgan Freeman :D).
I thought Herzog was pretty uncritical but that's probably to get more things out of Gorbochev and also the fact that he has lived for so long in divided Germany. But again, I would have liked to see a more challenging take on him that reflects his shortcomings along with achievements.
- pruthvishrathod
- Apr 29, 2019
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- Also known as
- Conociendo a Gorbachov
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $251,837
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,128
- May 5, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $319,230
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
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