GORBACHEV. HEAVEN

GORBAČOVS. PARADĪZE

Latvia, Czech Republic

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Synopsis

GORBACHEV. HEAVEN is a documentary film about changes that reverberated throughout the world wrought by one man. A film summing-up the life of a man who changed the world in the 20th century. Gorbachev’s short time in power was marked by the collapse of this empire. He was the architect of Glasnost and Perestroika, policies that gave the citizens of the Soviet Union - what Ronald Reagan called “the Evil Empire” - a chance to be free. He tore down the Berlin Wall. But at the same time, under his rule, the Chernobyl nuclear facility exploded and its destruction was concealed. Citizens demanding independence in the Baltic states died. Soldiers wielding shovels brutally suppressed protesters in Tbilisi. And Soviet tanks menaced, and killed, peaceful demonstrators in Baku. The Soviet empire collapsed under him – and he is condemned by his own people. With this burden of the past, this lonely old man is living the last days of his life in an empty house in the suburbs near Moscow.

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Cast & Crew

  • Directed by: Vitaly Manskiy
  • Written by: Alexander Gelman, Vitaly Manskiy
  • Produced by: Natalia Manskaia, Filip Remunda, Vit Klusak
  • Editing: Yevgeny Rybalko
  • Sound: Anrijs Krenbergs
  • Original Score: Karlis Auzans

Director's Statement

Mikhail Gorbachev will have monuments around the world. Somewhere very soon, somewhere – in Russia, for example – it will be many years before there is a sense of what this man has done for history.
 But I wanted that behind the coolness of bronze or marble there would be visible a man who decided on his own to make the world a better place. It was with this motivation that we undertook the lengthy job of persuading this world-weary 90-year-old old man to let us into his world of loneliness, frustration, and the joy of freedom!

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