Portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Acting

Biography

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.

Born: March 2, 1931

Place of Birth: Privolnoe, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Filmography

2025
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective

as Self - Former General Secretary CCCP

2025
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World

as Self (archive footage)

2024
Traitors

as Self (archive footage)

2024
2023
In the Grip of Gazprom

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2023
Three Wars

as Self (archive footage)

2022
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

as Self (archive footage)

2022
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes

as Self (archive footage)

2021
Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

as Self (archive footage)

2021
The Art of Dissent

as Self - Subject (archive footage)

2021
Stasi, un État contre son peuple

as Self (archive footage)

2021
Sakharov. Two Lives

as Self (archive footage)

2021
2020
The Long Breakup

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2020
First Ladies

as Self (archive footage)

2020
My Favorite War

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2020
The Way I See It

as Self (archive footage)

2020
History 101

as Self (archive footage)

2020
Frenemies: Putin and Trump

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2020
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

as Self (archive footage)

2019
30 Years of Democracy

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2019
Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2019
The Man Who Defied Beijing

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2018
Putin's Witnesses

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

2018
Our Africa

as Self

2017
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

as Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)

2017
2017
Era Of Dance

as Self (archive footage)

2016
Zero Days

as Self (archive footage)

2015
Those Who Dare

as Self (archive footage)

2015
The Russian Woodpecker

as Former President Russia (archive footage)

2015
Laissez-faire

as Self (archive footage)

2012
2012
41

as Self (archive footage)

2009
Disco and Atomic War

as Self (archive footage)

2009
2008
Hype: The Obama Effect

as Self (archive footage)

2008
The Soviet Story

as Self (archive footage)

2008
Album

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2007
2007
Hammer & Tickle

as Self (archive footage)

2006
Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!

as Self (archive footage)

2004
Zero Hour

as Self (archival footage)

2004
Disaster at Chernobyl

as Self (archive footage)

2003
Days That Shook the World

as Self (archive footage)

1999
1999
Beckmann

as Self

1998
Reagan

as Self

1996
1995
1993
Faraway, So Close!

as Mikhail Gorbachev

1991
Desert Storm: The War Begins

as Self (archive footage)

1991
Ceausescu: Behind the Myth

as Self (archive footage)

1991
DAS!

as Self

1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1989
The Abyss

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1988
Children of the 20th Congress

as (archive footage)