“Gorbachev. Heaven” est un film documentaire qui retrace la vie d’un homme dont les décisions ont changé la face du XXème siècle. Sous son règne, s’est effondré l’empire soviétique ; il est l’architecte de la Glasnot et de la Perestroïka ; l’artisan de la chute du mur de Berlin, mais aussi l’homme qui a longtemps dissimulé l’explosion de la centrale nucléaire de Tchernobyl. Condamné par son propre peuple alors qu’il lui avait laissé une chance d’être libre, Gorbachev vit les derniers jours de sa vie, isolé dans une maison vide de la banlieue moscovite. Vitaly Mansky brosse un portrait intime et politique de l’une des figures clés du XXème siècle.

"Gorbachev. Heaven" is a documentary film about changes that reverberated throughout the world wrought by one man. A film summing-up the life of a man who changed the world in the 20th century. Gorbachev’s short time in power was marked by the collapse of this empire. He was the architect of Glasnost and Perestroika, policies that gave the citizens of the Soviet Union – what Ronald Reagan called “the Evil Empire” – a chance to be free. He tore down the Berlin Wall. But at the same time, under his rule, the Chernobyl nuclear facility exploded and its destruction was concealed. Citizens demanding independence in the Baltic states died. Soldiers wielding shovels brutally suppressed protesters in Tbilisi. And Soviet tanks menaced, and killed, peaceful demonstrators in Baku. The Soviet empire collapsed under him – and he is condemned by his own people. With this burden of the past, this lonely old man is living the last days of his life in an empty house in the suburbs near Moscow.

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