Mikhail Gorbachev
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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
Credits
The Abyss (1989)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
as Mikhail Gorbachev
The 11th Hour (2007)
as Self
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Zero Days (2016)
as Self (archive footage)
The Soviet Story (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Children of the 20th Congress (1988)
as (archive footage)
Laissez-faire (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Hammer & Tickle (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
Cuba, l'histoire secrète (2016)
Actor
But... Seriously (1994)
as Self (archive footage)
Disaster at Chernobyl (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Meeting Gorbachev (2019)
as Self
Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
Putin's Witnesses (2018)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
My Favorite War (2020)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Guts and Glory (2002)
as Self (archive)
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Freedom's Fury (2006)
Actor
The Way I See It (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Our Africa (2018)
as Self
Disco and Atomic War (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
Coup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War (1995)
Actor
The Battle of Chernobyl (2007)
as Self
Ceausescu: Behind the Myth (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
Frenemies: Putin and Trump (2020)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
A Bitter Taste of Freedom (2011)
as Self
The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files (1999)
as Self
Lusia in Wonderland (2018)
as Self
Free to Rock (2017)
as Self
Sakharov. Two Lives (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Stasi: A State Against Its People (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Russian Woodpecker (2015)
as Former President Russia (archive footage)
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
How to Stage a Coup (2017)
Actor
Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Day of Revelation (1989)
Actor
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984)
as Self
Quando c'era Berlinguer (2014)
Actor
In the Grip of Gazprom (2023)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Long Breakup (2020)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Palme (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)
as Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)
30 Years of Democracy (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective (2025)
as Self - Former General Secretary CCCP
Era Of Dance (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
41 (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Latest News About Doomsday (1991)
as Self
Der springende Punkt (1987)
Actor
Gorbachev. Heaven (2021)
as Self
Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party (2019)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
Actor
Those Who Dare (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo! (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
The Man Who Defied Beijing (2019)
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Art of Dissent (2021)
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
Reagan (1998)
as Self
Desert Storm: The War Begins (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
Die Sekretäre (1999)
as Self (archive footage)
When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World (1999)
as Self
New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood (1992)
as Self
The Last Days of the USSR (2011)
as Self
Gorbacheva (2024)
Actor
The Man Who Challenged Putin (2023)
as Self
The Arrow of Time (2017)
as Self
Satans mördare (1995)
as Self
Here to Stay (2009)
as Self
Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World (—)
as Self
The Collapse of The Soviet Union (2006)
as Self
Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende (2012)
as Self
Hype: The Obama Effect (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
He Came to Give Us Freedom (2011)
Actor
Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired (2017)
as Self
Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde (2003)
Actor
Bukharin and the Terror (1988)
Actor