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- “Meeting Gorbachev” is not a traditional bio-doc and it’s not only because its co-director, the inimitable Werner Herzog, doesn’t make traditional bio-docs.
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May 3, 2019 · “Meeting Gorbachev” is not a traditional bio-doc and it’s not only because its co-director, the inimitable Werner Herzog, doesn’t make traditional bio-docs. Yes, this film contains the occasional Herzogian tangent, but what’s more interesting is how much Herzog makes himself a part of the process.
Meeting Gorbachev is a 2018 biographical documentary film directed by Werner Herzog and André Singer about the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union.
- $252,203
- Svetlana Palmer, Lucki Stipetic
- Nicholas Singer
Sep 3, 2018 · And yet, it’s ultimately because of Gorbachev’s seeming unwillingness to fit the director’s usual mold that “Meeting Gorbachev” is able to become such a different and engaging bio-doc ...
- Learning from History
- Present Meets Past
- Meeting Gorbachev: Conclusion
The opening sequence of Meeting Gorbachev just about perfectly summarizes the delightfully bizarre tone that Herzog brings to everything he has ever done. Upon meeting Gorbachev for the first time, the first thing Herzog does is apologize on behalf of the entire country of Germany for the atrocities of World War II. “The first German you ever met w...
Meeting Gorbachev combines these present-day interviews with archival footage that places the topics of their conversations in historical context — very helpful if, like me, you were born at the tail end of the Cold War era and have no recollection of these events as they were happening in real time. However, because it’s Herzog, this footage is no...
Meeting Gorbachev is less about the man himself and more about what he represents to Herzog: a time when political leaders were willing to converse and compromise instead of issuing blustery threats of mutual mass destruction. The film forces you to think about how the world has changed in the relatively short span of time since Gorbachev was in po...
- Lee Jutton
May 2, 2019 · For Gorbachev, sharp and feisty at age 88, the interview is an opportunity for legacy burnishing. “No matter what anyone says, the proposals to end the Cold War came from the Soviet Union,” he ...
May 2, 2019 · May 2, 2019 2:23 PM PT. Sometimes you don’t realize you needed a cinematic pairing until you see it, as with Werner Herzog interviewing Mikhail Gorbachev for the German filmmaker’s biographical doc...
Sep 3, 2018 · In Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union, Werner Herzog has finally met his match.
