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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. The film features three interviews between Herzog and Gorbachev, conducted over the span of six months, and had its world premiere at the Telluride Film ...
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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 ...
May 27, 2019 · Meeting Gorbachev is not so much a proponent of the (never debunked enough) Great Man theory of history, as a proponent of a theory that says greatness comes with a sense of awareness, an openness ...
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 ...
Sep 3, 2018 · In Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union, Werner Herzog has finally met his match.
Nov 8, 2019 · Documentary films. This article is more than 4 years old. Meeting Gorbachev review – Werner Herzog pulls his punches. The great director quizzes the former USSR leader in a grandly presented...
