Review of Meeting Gorbachev (2019) by Eli Friedberg for The Film Stage — 24 May 2021
In a rare moment of open self-criticism, Gorbachev ponders that he was perhaps “too soft” on those traitorous countrymen who rallied to unseat him; that he ought to have had them “sent away.” It’s the lone sobering, tantalizing, self-aware peek into the savage realpolitik lurking beneath his noble words.
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This review of Meeting Gorbachev (2019) was written by Eli Friedberg and published by The Film Stage on 24 May 2021.
Meeting Gorbachev has generally received positive reviews.
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