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Meeting Gorbachev

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Directed by Werner Herzog & André Singer
2018, UK/US/Germany, 90 min
Russian, German English with subtitles

The USSR’s last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, steps back into the limelight in this riveting documentary focused on a life that changed history. Now 87 and in precarious health, Gorbachev nevertheless possesses a mind as sharp as ever as he parries Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) in a series of interviews. Gorbachev tells his story his way, immune to Herzog’s conversational gambits. Archival footage and interviews with Gorbachev contemporaries, including Poland’s Lech Walesa and former Secretary of State George Shultz, help fill in the portrait, but it is Gorbachev’s own words that form the core of this fascinating portrait. – SFFF

Reviews

One of the most important documentaries of the year because it still feels fresh and relevant to our times.
  - Jordan Ruimy , The Playlist
Four stars. Acclaimed documentarian Werner Herzog spent a year interviewing the last President of the USSR, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. Over the course of ninety minutes, Herzog takes us through a potted history of the decline of the Soviet Union and the achievements of one of the 20th century’s greatest political figures.
- Christopher Machell, Cinevue
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