Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв; 2 March 1931 - 30 August 2022) was a Russian and former Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was also the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991, serving as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, he initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism although by the early 1990s had moved toward social democracy.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.024 |
| Birthday | 1931-03-02 |
| Place of Birth | Privolnoe, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia] |
| Also Known As | Михаил Горбачев, Mikhail Gorbachyov, Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, Mikhaïl Gorbatchov, Michail Gorbačov , Michail S. Gorbatschow, |
2009
Here to Stay
5.6/4
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1999
The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
5/1
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2011
A Bitter Taste of Freedom
6.3/3
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A Bitter Taste of Freedom
2006
Freedom's Fury
7.6/5
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Freedom's Fury
2014
Quando c'era Berlinguer
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2016
Zero Days
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1992
Strictly Propaganda
6.2/4
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Strictly Propaganda
1993
Faraway, So Close!
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2004
Disaster at Chernobyl
7.5/13
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The Battle of Chernobyl
7.49/48
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Free to Rock
6.4/5
Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite Communist attempts to outlaw it an...
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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...
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Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
6/1
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But... Seriously
10/1
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2010
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
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1998
Reagan
6/1
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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.
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Putin's Witnesses
6.339/28
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Putin's Witnesses
2009
Disco and Atomic War
5.6/14
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Disco and Atomic War
2019
Meeting Gorbachev
6.5/64
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2019
Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party
8/11
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The Man Who Defied Beijing
6.5/2
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1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
7.3/3
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The Arrow of Time
0/0
President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.
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41
5.6/4
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Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
6.5/2
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Frenemies: Putin and Trump
7.5/4
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Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende
0/0
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Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
6.4/5
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2006
The Collapse of The Soviet Union
0/0
The film is using episodes filmed mainly at the Kremlin, Soviet Union's headquarters which enable to have a glance to world's most well-known politica...
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Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
3/1
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Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!
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2011
He Came to Give Us Freedom
0/0
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2021
Gorbachev. Heaven
8.2/5
An immersion into the intimacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR. The architect of perestroika and glasnost, who was praised in the We...
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2019
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
6.368/19
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The Way I See It
7.7/27
Former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza's journey as a person with top secret clearance and total access to the President.
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My Favorite War
6.7/8
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Era Of Dance
8/1
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Our Africa
0/0
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The Last Days of the USSR
8/1
From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic res...
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2021
Sakharov. Two Lives
0/0
Avenue, university and even an asteroid bear his name. Academician Sakharov is known all over the world: someone as the creator of the hydrogen bomb,...
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2021
Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR
8.5/4
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2021
Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
7.733/15
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Laissez-faire
10/1
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2021
Mr. Landsbergis
8.2/4
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2019
30 Years of Democracy
8/2
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2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
7.462/26
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2020
The Long Breakup
5.5/4
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The Abyss
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Hammer & Tickle
7.4/5
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Stasi, un État contre son peuple
9/2
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2023
In the Grip of Gazprom
8/1
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2003
Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde
0/0
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1987
Der springende Punkt
0/0
Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of modern...
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Those Who Dare
0/0
When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But as cries for he...
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2021
The Art of Dissent
0/0
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1996
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
0/0
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1999
Die Sekretäre
0/0
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2017
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
7/1
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1998
Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial
0/0
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, was featured in a 1998 television advertisement for Pizza Hut.
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1999
When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World
0/0
A detailed reconstruction of the events from Nov. 9th to 11th, 1989, which led to the Berlin wall tumbling down, on a local, national and internationa...
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2024
Gorbacheva
0/0
Raisa Gorbachev, Nancy Reagan, Jacqueline Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher. Their names have been in the same row for a long time. This film is a bold attem...
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Gorbacheva
1984
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
6.2/2
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Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1989
Day of Revelation
0/0
About the leaders and the nature of the activities of informal groups in Moscow: “Democratic Union” and “People’s Front”.
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