Film

Meeting Gorbachev

Director
Werner Herzog, André Singer
Certificate
PG
Running Time
91 mins

Werner Herzog teams up with anthropologist André Singer for a portrait of 87-year-old Mikhail Gorbachev, eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, combining archive footage with three lengthy chinwags between Werner and Gorby.

It’s an unashamed hagiography, but an insightful one.

By robin askew, Wednesday, Oct 30 2019

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