Mikhail Gorbachev
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
DAS!
Self
1991
Series
maybrit illner
Self
1999
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Self
1998
Film
The Abyss
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989
Series
Beckmann
Self
1999
Series
History 101
Self (archive footage)
2020
Series
The School for Scandal
2002
Series
HARDtalk
1997
Series
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Self (archive footage)
2024
Series
Days That Shook the World
Self (archive footage)
2003
Menschen
Self
1982
Series
Zero Hour
Self (archival footage)
2004
Series
Ein Herz für Kinder
Self
1998
Series
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
Self
2012
Series
Album
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2008
Series
First Ladies
Self (archive footage)
2020
Goldene Henne
Self
1995
Series
Legends of Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2016
Series
Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown
Self (archive footage)
2026
Series
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
Self (archive footage)
2024
Series
Код доступа
Self
2017
Film
The 11th Hour
Self
2007
Film
The Soviet Story
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
Faraway, So Close!
Mikhail Gorbachev
1993
Series
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
Self (archive footage)
2022
Series
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
Self (archive footage)
1999
Series
Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator
Self (archive footage)
2023
Series
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
Self (archive footage)
2016
Film
Hammer & Tickle
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
My Favorite War
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020
Film
Zero Days
Self (archive footage)
2016
Series
Three Wars
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Children of the 20th Congress
(archive footage)
1988
Film
Disaster at Chernobyl
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
Film
Era Of Dance
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
A Bitter Taste of Freedom
Self
2011
Film
Our Africa
Self
2018
Film
Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung
Self (archive footage)
1990
Film
Those Who Dare
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Self
1984
Film
Sakharov. Two Lives
Self (archive footage)
2021
Series
The Second Russian Revolution
Self
1991
Film
The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
Self
1999
Film
Putin's Witnesses
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2018
Film
In the Grip of Gazprom
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Film
How to Stage a Coup
2017
Series
Traitors
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Day of Revelation
1989
Film
Disco and Atomic War
Self (archive footage)
2009
Film
The Russian Woodpecker
Former President Russia (archive footage)
2015
But... Seriously
Self (archive footage)
1994
Lusia in Wonderland
Self
2018
Film
30 Years of Democracy
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Palme
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
Laissez-faire
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
The Way I See It
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)
2017
Film
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Free to Rock
Self
2017
Film
Frenemies: Putin and Trump
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020
Film
Quando c'era Berlinguer
2014
Film
Guts and Glory
Self (archive)
2002
Film
Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
Film
Meeting Gorbachev
Self
2019
Film
Coup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War
1995
Film
Gorbacheva
2024
Film
The Battle of Chernobyl
Self
2007
Film
The Man Who Defied Beijing
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
Film
Hype: The Obama Effect
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
Self - Former General Secretary CCCP
2025
Film
Here to Stay
Self
2009
Film
Latest News About Doomsday
Self
1991
Film
Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
The Long Breakup
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020
Film
Freedom's Fury
2006
Film
Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
Reagan
Self
1998
Film
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Stasi: A State Against Its People
Self (archive footage)
2021
Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende
Self
2012
Film
Desert Storm: The War Begins
Self (archive footage)
1991
Series
Hullu vuosi 1991
Self
2021
Film
Gorbachev. Heaven
Self
2021
Film
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
41
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
The Last Days of the USSR
Self
2011
Film
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
Der springende Punkt
1987
Film
The Collapse of The Soviet Union
Self
2006
Film
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
2010
Film
Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
Self
2017
Film
The Arrow of Time
Self
2017
Film
Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
Self (archive footage)
1991
New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
Self
1992
Film
The Man Who Challenged Putin
Self
2023
Film
The Art of Dissent
Self - Subject (archive footage)
2021
Film
Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World
Self
Film
When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World
Self
1999
Film
He Came to Give Us Freedom
2011
Film
Satans mördare
Self
1995
Film
Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde
2003
Die Sekretäre
Self (archive footage)
1999
Film
Cuba, l'histoire secrète
2016
Film
Bukharin and the Terror
1988