Movies: Mikhail Gorbachev

  • 2017
    À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

    À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)

    À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

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    Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s....

    À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
  • 2008
    The Soviet Story

    The Soviet Story (2008)

    The Soviet Story

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    “The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the compl...

    The Soviet Story
  • 1984
    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984)

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

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    A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party....

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
  • 2019
    The Man Who Defied Beijing

    The Man Who Defied Beijing (2019)

    The Man Who Defied Beijing

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    A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly pecked the putrid brain of the Communist regime for decades, demanding democracy loudly and fearlessly. S...

    The Man Who Defied Beijing
  • 2021
    Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR

    Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR (2021)

    Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR

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    Three decades after the nuclear explosion, almost everything has been said about this ecological and sanitary disaster that made Pripiat a part of History. How did the greatest industrial disaster change the course of History, disrupt global geopolit...

    Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR
  • 2019
    Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

    Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)

    Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

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    Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun....

    Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
  • 2021
    Mr. Landsbergis

    Mr. Landsbergis (2021)

    Mr. Landsbergis

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    This film about the Baltic nation of Lithuania from 1989 to 1991, when it broke away from the Soviet Union. This period of peaceful protests involving lots of singing came to be known as the "singing revolution."...

    Mr. Landsbergis
  • 2019
    30 Years of Democracy

    30 Years of Democracy (2019)

    30 Years of Democracy

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    Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the last 30 years since the fall of communism. The end product is a documentary containing footage of political events and historical milestones significa...

    30 Years of Democracy
  • 2015
    The Russian Woodpecker

    The Russian Woodpecker (2015)

    The Russian Woodpecker

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    As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life and play his part in the revolution by revealing it....

    The Russian Woodpecker
  • 1994
    But... Seriously

    But... Seriously (1994)

    But... Seriously

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    A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians....

    But... Seriously
  • 2020
    The Long Breakup

    The Long Breakup (2020)

    The Long Breakup

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    Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine, chronicles Ukraine's history: its strong ties to Russia for centuries; how it broke away from the USSR and began to walk alone; the Orange Revolutio...

    The Long Breakup
  • 2017
    Free to Rock

    Free to Rock (2017)

    Free to Rock

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    Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite Communist attempts to outlaw it and to crush what they perceived was a contamination of their youth. Over the next thirty years, thous...

    Free to Rock
  • 2019
    Meeting Gorbachev

    Meeting Gorbachev (2019)

    Meeting Gorbachev

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    Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the talks to reduce nuclear weapons, the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of his country....

    Meeting Gorbachev
  • 2021
    Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

    Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! (2021)

    Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

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    Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single digits. A painful economic transition, war in Chechnya, and the rise of criminal groups have left th...

    Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
  • 1989
    Day of Revelation

    Day of Revelation (1989)

    Day of Revelation

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    About the leaders and the nature of the activities of informal groups in Moscow: “Democratic Union” and “People’s Front”....

    Day of Revelation
  • 2004
    Disaster at Chernobyl

    Disaster at Chernobyl (2004)

    Disaster at Chernobyl

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    The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination of human error and imperfect technology. An account of the sixty critical minutes prior to the explosion of the nuclear power plant on the night of Ap...

    Disaster at Chernobyl
  • 2018
    Lusia in Wonderland

    Lusia in Wonderland (2018)

    Lusia in Wonderland

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    How Lyusia Stein - a graduate of VGIK and a municipal deputy of Moscow - went to work for Ksenia Sobchak's campaign headquarters....

    Lusia in Wonderland
  • 2010
    The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

    The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)

    The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

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    The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania....

    The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
  • 2021
    Stasi, un État contre son peuple

    Stasi, un État contre son peuple (2021)

    Stasi, un État contre son peuple

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    After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and...

    Stasi, un État contre son peuple
  • 1988
    Children of the 20th Congress

    Children of the 20th Congress (1988)

    Children of the 20th Congress

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    In the film, the authors act as researchers of the Thaw era and the generation of the sixties....

    Children of the 20th Congress