28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Meeting Gorbachev
director: André Singer, Werner Herzog
original title: Meeting Gorbachev
year: 2018
running time: 90 min.
synopsis
A confrontational dialogue between Werner Herzog and the last Soviet president is the core of a portrait made up primarily of archival and illustrative footage against the background of which Herzog’s hypnotic voice reflects on Gorbachev’s political career, including the eras of perestroika and glasnost, through his tragic end.
biography
Werner Herzog (1942) has been making films since the late 1960s. His oeuvre comprises over 40 documentaries and over 20 feature films. André Singer (1945) works primarily as a film producer.
more about film
director: | André Singer, Werner Herzog |
cast: | Mikhail Gorbachev, Miklós Németh, George P. Shultz, James A. Baker III, Lech Walesa, Horst Teltschik |
producer: | Lucki Stipetic, Svetlana Palmer, Spring Films |
script: | Werner Herzog, André Singer |
photography: | Richard Blanshard, Yuri Barak |
editing: | Michael Ellis |
music: | Nicholas Singer |
sound: | Vladimir Rizun, Vasily Amochkin, Simon Bishop, Alexander Kuckuck |