Meeting Gorbachev

director: André Singer, Werner Herzog

original title: Meeting Gorbachev

country: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

year: 2018

running time: 90 min.

synopsis

A confrontational dialogue between Werner Herzog and the last Soviet president is the core of a portrait made up primarily of archival and illustrative footage against the background of which Herzog’s hypnotic voice reflects on Gorbachev’s political career, including the eras of perestroika and glasnost, through his tragic end.

biography

Werner Herzog (1942) has been making films since the late 1960s. His oeuvre comprises over 40 documentaries and over 20 feature films. André Singer (1945) works primarily as a film producer.

more about film

director:	André Singer, Werner Herzog
cast:	Mikhail Gorbachev, Miklós Németh, George P. Shultz, James A. Baker III, Lech Walesa, Horst Teltschik
producer:	Lucki Stipetic, Svetlana Palmer, Spring Films
script:	Werner Herzog, André Singer
photography:	Richard Blanshard, Yuri Barak
editing:	Michael Ellis
music:	Nicholas Singer
sound:	Vladimir Rizun, Vasily Amochkin, Simon Bishop, Alexander Kuckuck

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