
Mikhail Gorbachev
Known for Acting · 106 credits
- Born
- 1931-03-02
- Died
- 2022-08-30
- Place of birth
- Privolnoe, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
- Also known as
- Михаил Горбачев · Mikhail Gorbachyov · Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow · Mikhaïl Gorbatchev · Mikhaïl Gorbatchov · Michail S. Gorbatschow
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.
Known For
TV Shows (28)

DAS!
1991
as Self
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
as Self

Beckmann
1999
as Self

maybrit illner
1999
as Self

History 101
2020
as Self (archive footage)

The School for Scandal
2002
Menschen
1982
as Self

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
2012
as Self

Ein Herz für Kinder
1998
as Self

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
2024
as Self (archive footage)

HARDtalk
1997
Goldene Henne
1995
as Self

Days That Shook the World
2003
as Self (archive footage)

First Ladies
2020
as Self (archive footage)

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
2024
as Self (archive footage)

Zero Hour
2004
as Self (archival footage)

Legends of Cinema
2016
as Self (archive footage)

Album
2008
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Код доступа
2017
as Self

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
1999
as Self (archive footage)

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
2022
as Self (archive footage)

Three Wars
2023
as Self (archive footage)

The Second Russian Revolution
1991
as Self

Traitors
2024
as Self (archive footage)

Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
2016
as Self (archive footage)

Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown
2026
as Self (archive footage)

Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator
2023
as Self (archive footage)

Hullu vuosi 1991
2021
as Self
Movies (78)

The Abyss
1989
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Putin's Witnesses
2018
as Self - Politician (archive footage)

The 11th Hour
2007
as Self

Faraway, So Close!
1993
as Mikhail Gorbachev

Zero Days
2016
as Self (archive footage)

Laissez-faire
2015
as Self (archive footage)

Palme
2012
as Self (archive footage)

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1990
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
2019
as Self (archive footage)

Frenemies: Putin and Trump
2020
as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
2019
as Self - Politician (archive footage)

AUM: The Cult at the End of the World
2025
as Self (archive footage)

The Battle of Chernobyl
2007
as Self

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
as Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)

Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR
2021
as Self (archive footage)

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
2022
as Self (archive footage)

The Way I See It
2020
as Self (archive footage)

The Soviet Story
2008
as Self (archive footage)

The Long Breakup
2020
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende
2012
as Self

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984
as Self

In the Grip of Gazprom
2023
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Russian Woodpecker
2015
as Former President Russia (archive footage)

Reagan
1998
as Self

Disco and Atomic War
2009
as Self (archive footage)

Disaster at Chernobyl
2004
as Self (archive footage)
New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
1992
as Self
But... Seriously
1994
as Self (archive footage)

The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
1999
as Self

When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World
1999
as Self

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
2020
as Self (archive footage)

Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
2021
as Self (archive footage)

Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party
2019
as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Freedom's Fury
2006

JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
2025
as Self - Former General Secretary CCCP

Meeting Gorbachev
2019
as Self

Stasi: A State Against Its People
2021
as Self (archive footage)

Gorbachev. Heaven
2021
as Self

Free to Rock
2017
as Self

My Favorite War
2020
as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
1996
as Self (archive footage)

He Came to Give Us Freedom
2011

41
2012
as Self (archive footage)

The Arrow of Time
2017
as Self

Hype: The Obama Effect
2008
as Self (archive footage)

Desert Storm: The War Begins
1991
as Self (archive footage)

30 Years of Democracy
2019
as Self (archive footage)

The Last Days of the USSR
2011
as Self

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
2010
Die Sekretäre
1999
as Self (archive footage)

Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!
2006
as Self (archive footage)

Hammer & Tickle
2007
as Self (archive footage)

The Man Who Challenged Putin
2023
as Self

How to Stage a Coup
2017

The Man Who Defied Beijing
2019
as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Sakharov. Two Lives
2021
as Self (archive footage)

Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
1991
as Self (archive footage)

Era Of Dance
2017
as Self (archive footage)

Here to Stay
2009
as Self

A Bitter Taste of Freedom
2011
as Self

Satans mördare
1995
as Self

Children of the 20th Congress
1988
as (archive footage)

Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
2017
as Self

The Art of Dissent
2021
as Self - Subject (archive footage)

Those Who Dare
2015
as Self (archive footage)

Latest News About Doomsday
1991
as Self

Day of Revelation
1989

Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde
2003

Coup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War
1995
Lusia in Wonderland
2018
as Self

Our Africa
2018
as Self
Der springende Punkt
1987

Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung
1990
as Self (archive footage)

Quando c'era Berlinguer
2014

Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World
as Self

Gorbacheva
2024

The Collapse of The Soviet Union
2006
as Self

Bukharin and the Terror
1988
About Mikhail Gorbachev
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, h… With 106 credits spanning from 1982 to 2026, Mikhail Gorbachev has appeared in 78 films and 28 TV shows.
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- The Abyss (1989) — as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Putin's Witnesses (2018) — as Self - Politician (archive footage)
- The 11th Hour (2007) — as Self
- Faraway, So Close! (1993) — as Mikhail Gorbachev
- Zero Days (2016) — as Self (archive footage)
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