Новый фильм Виталия Манского погружает в повседневную жизнь и неспешные свидетельства 90-летнего Михаила Горбачева, живущего в служебном доме под Москвой. Фильм-портрет первого и последнего президента СССР, человека, который практически в одиночку начал демонтаж советской системы и предложил нежданную свободу миллионам людей в мире. Именно за это его одни превозносят, а другие проклинают. Так он и живет - между раем и адом.
Латвия, Чехия, 2020
Режиссёр - Виталий Манский
Сценарист - Виталий Манский, Александр Гельман
Оператор - Александра Иванова
Продюсер - Наталья Манская, Вит Клусак, Филип Ремунда
Композитор - Карлис Аузанс
Звукорежиссёр - Анрийс Кренбергс
Студия - Вертов, Hypermarket Film, ARTE G.E.I.E., Czech Television
"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.
Latvia, Czech Republic, 2020
Director - Vitaly Mansky
Screenwriter - Alexander Gelman, Vitaly Mansky
Cinematographer - Alexandra Ivanova
Producer - Natalia Manskaia, Vit Klusak, Filip Remunda
Composer - Karlis Auzans
Sound operator - Anrijs Krenbergs
Film studio - Vertov, Hypermarket Film, ARTE G.E.I.E., Czech Television