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Meeting Gorbachev

  • 20182018
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  • 1h 30m
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Werner Herzog and Mikhail Gorbachev in Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Using footage from three separate interviews, Werner Herzog converses with Mikhail Gorbachev, former General Secretary of the U.S.S.R, about three of his key achievements: negotiations with the U.S. to reduce nuclear weapons; cessation of Soviet control of Eastern Europe and the reunification of Germany; and the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc.
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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.
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  • Directors
    • Werner Herzog
    • André Singer
  • Writer
    • Werner Herzog
  • Stars
    • Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Werner Herzog
    • André Singer
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  • Directors
    • Werner Herzog
    • André Singer
  • Writer
    • Werner Herzog
  • Stars
    • Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Werner Herzog
    • André Singer
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    • 19User reviews
    • 38Critic reviews
    • 72Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 3 nominations

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    Lech Walesa in Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
    Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
    Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher in Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
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    Werner Herzog and Mikhail Gorbachev in Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
    Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
    Werner Herzog in Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
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    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Selfas Self
    Werner Herzog
    Werner Herzog
    • Self, interviewer and narratoras Self, interviewer and narrator
    André Singer
    André Singer
    • Selfas Self
    Leonid Brezhnev
    Leonid Brezhnev
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    Miklos Nemeth
    • Selfas Self
    Raisa Gorbacheva
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva)
    Yuri Andropov
    Yuri Andropov
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    Konstantin Chernenko
    Konstantin Chernenko
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    Andrei Gromyko
    Andrei Gromyko
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    George Bush
    George Bush
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    Margaret Thatcher
    Margaret Thatcher
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    Helmut Kohl
    Helmut Kohl
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    George Shultz
    George Shultz
    • Selfas Self
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    Lech Walesa
    Lech Walesa
    • Selfas Self
    James Baker III
    James Baker III
    • Selfas Self
    • (as James Baker)
    Horst Teltschik
    • Selfas Self
    Boris Yeltsin
    Boris Yeltsin
    • Selfas Self
    • (archive footage)
    • Directors
      • Werner Herzog
      • André Singer
    • Writer
      • Werner Herzog
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    • Trivia
      Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was the eighth and last President of the Soviet Union from 1988 until 1991.
    • Quotes

      Himself - Interviewer and Narrator: I would like to hear what should be on your grave stone.

      Mikhail Gorbachev: We tried

    • Connections
      References Gorbachev. After Empire (2001)

    User reviews19

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    Is ""Meeting Gorbachev" s bad as "Bad Lieutenant II" or "Salt and Fire"? No. But it is not near the level of Aguirre, Fitzcaraldo, or Cave
    Rating of Subject (Gorbachov): 5 Rating of Herzog's lifetime body of work: 9/10 This hagiographic film: 3 stars at best

    The simple fact is that in terms of the tearing off of the USSR control of over 100 million subjugated people in eastern Europe, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Lech Walesa were the major players, and Gorbachev was more or less swept along by events rather than participating steering them. Even historians on the left in Poland, Hungary, the Czech republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukrainian,e, Belorussian, the Baltic countries even Germany widely acknowledge this. Gorbachev ought to have been asked by Herzog if he would acknowledge the debt he and the citizens of former Soviet Russia have to the brave people in Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, etc.

    Don't get me wrong. Herzog is a genius. After Greenaway, he is my favorite. The imagery, the laconic way he narrates the surreal in his documentaries, and his crafting of his fictional work are without par. But he fails when he gets political. And he is at the very least, proffering up survivor bias, because, well, Gorbachev is alive and can spin his role, while Reagan and Thatcher are dead. Gorbachev makes so many frankly untrue statements unchallenged in "Meeting" that it is stunning.

    Is meeting Gorbachev as bad as "Bad Lieutenant II" or "Salt and Fire"? NO. Anywhere near the level of Aguirre, Fitzcaraldo, Cave? also an emphatic: NO.
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    • Release date
      • May 3, 2019 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • Germany
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • Russian
      • German
      • Polish
    • Also known as
      • Conociendo a Gorbachov
    • Filming locations
      • Moscow, Russia
    • Production companies
      • Spring Films
      • Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $251,837
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $18,128
      • May 5, 2019
    • Gross worldwide
      • $319,230
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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