Documentary Week on Movies with Meaning
Reviews of "Meeting Gorbachev," "Hail Satan?" and "Ask Dr. Ruth" are all in the latest Movies with Meaning post on the web site of The Good Media Network, available by clicking here.
Reviews of "Meeting Gorbachev," "Hail Satan?" and "Ask Dr. Ruth" are all in the latest Movies with Meaning post on the web site of The Good Media Network, available by clicking here.
“Meeting Gorbachev” (2019). Cast: Interviews: Mikhail Gorbachev, Werner Herzog, Miklós Németh, George Shultz, James Baker, Lech Walesa, Horst Teltschik. Archive Footage: Raisa Gorbachev, Yuri Andropov, Leonid Brezhnev, Konstantin Chernenko, Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl, Andrei Gromyko. Directors: Werner Herzog and Andre Singer. Screenplay: Werner Herzog. Web site. Trailer. It’s one thing to be ever-practical when it comes to conducting our affairs, but this approach may sometimes limit our options, outcomes and effectiveness. By contrast, we could adopt a truly visionary view, one that surpasses these shortcomings but that also may be difficult to fulfill due to a lack of pragmatism. So it’s quite something when we’re able to fuse both qualities, making [...]
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