The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last President of the Soviet Union, as seen through the eyes of the brilliant and eccentric director Werner Herzog. Gorbachev, the architect of Perestroika and Glasnost, now 87, maintains his wit, reminding the man he used to be back when the planet was amidst the two superpowers. A documentary that plays out like a chess game between two experienced players, focusing on the painful past.
Meeting Gorbachev
Meeting Gorbachev
21st TDF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Werner Herzog & André Singer
- Script: Werner Herzog
- Cinematography: Yuri Burak, Richard Blanshard
- Editing: Michael Ellis
- Sound: Vasily Amochkin, Simon Bishop, Alexander Kuckuck, Vladimir Rizun
- Music: Nicholas Singer
- Actors: Mikhail Gorbachev, Miklós Németh
- Production: Spring Films, Werner Herzog Film
- Producers: Lucki Stipetic, Svetlana Palmer
- Co-producers: Lynette Singer
- Executive producer: Richard Melman, Molly Thompson, Eli Lehrer, Ulrich Brochhagen
- Camera: Rob Anderson, Alexander Cherviakov, Nikita Kalachev, Emmanuel Suys, Pawel Tejchman
- Narration: Werner Herzog
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color/B&W
- Production Country: USA, United Kingdom, Austria
- Production Year: 2018
- Duration: 92΄
- Contact: Werner Herzog, office@wernerherzog.com
Werner Herzog
Filmography
1971 Fata Morgana
1972 Aguirre, the Wrath of God (fiction)
1974 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (fiction)
1982 Fitzcarraldo (fiction)
2005 Grizzly Man
2010 Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2016 Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2018 Meeting Gorbachev
2019 Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2022 The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2022 Theater of Thought
André Singer
Filmography
2017 Where the Wind Blew
2018 Meeting Gorbachev
2018 Meeting Gorbachev
