About
Mikhail Gorbachev
Overview
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
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| 2024 | USSR (1917-1991) | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Traitors | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Gorbacheva | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2023 | Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 70 Good |
| 2023 | In the Grip of Gazprom | Actor | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 2022 | Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 72 Good |
| 2022 | Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2021 | Mr. Landsbergis | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2021 | Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2021 | Gorbachev. Heaven | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2021 | The Art of Dissent | Actor | Self - Subject (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | Stasi, un État contre son peuple | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2021 | Sakharov. Two Lives | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2020 | The Long Breakup | Actor | Self - Politician (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2020 | My Favorite War | Actor | Self - Politician (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2020 | The Way I See It | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2020 | Frenemies: Putin and Trump | Actor | Self - Politician (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2020 | Stalin and the Katyn Massacre | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2019 | 30 Years of Democracy | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe | Actor | Self - Politician (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party | Actor | Self - Politician (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2019 | The Man Who Defied Beijing | Actor | Self - Politician (archive footage) | 58 Average |
| 2019 | Meeting Gorbachev | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Lusia in Wonderland | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2018 | Putin's Witnesses | Actor | Self - Politician (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Our Africa | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2017 | The Arrow of Time | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
| 2017 | À la recherche de... Pierre Richard | Actor | Self - Homme d'État soviétique et russe (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2017 | Free to Rock | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Era Of Dance | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 58 Average |
| 2016 | Zero Days | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 63 Fair |
| 2015 | Those Who Dare | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2015 | The Russian Woodpecker | Actor | Former President Russia (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Laissez-faire | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Quando c'era Berlinguer | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2012 | 41 | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2011 | The Last Days of the USSR | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2011 | A Bitter Taste of Freedom | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2011 | He Came to Give Us Freedom | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2010 | The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2009 | Disco and Atomic War | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 58 Average |
| 2009 | Here to Stay | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2007 | The Battle of Chernobyl | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
| 2007 | Hammer & Tickle | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Freedom's Fury | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2006 | La bataille de Tchernobyl | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
| 2006 | Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo! | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 2006 | The Collapse of The Soviet Union | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Disaster at Chernobyl | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1999 | Die Sekretäre | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 1999 | The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 1999 | When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1998 | Reagan | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1998 | Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1996 | Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 1994 | But... Seriously | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 1993 | Faraway, So Close! | Actor | Mikhail Gorbachev | 61 Fair |
| 1992 | Strictly Propaganda | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 1991 | Desert Storm: The War Begins | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 1991 | Ceausescu: Behind the Myth | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol | Actor | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1989 | The Abyss | Actor | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 71 Good |
| 1989 | Day of Revelation | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1988 | Children of the 20th Congress | Actor | (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
| 1987 | Der springende Punkt | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1984 | Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer | Actor | Self | 59 Average |