Cast & creator
Mikhail Gorbachev
Best known for DAS!, The Johannes B. Kerner Show, maybrit illner
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.
Also known as: Михаил Горбачев, Mikhail Gorbachyov, Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, Mikhaïl Gorbatchov
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1982–2026 · acting roles
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Filmography (109)
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DAS!
Self
1991The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Self
1998
maybrit illner
Self
1999
Beckmann
Self
1999
HARDtalk
1997
First Ladies
Self (archive footage)
2020
The Abyss
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989
History 101
Self (archive footage)
2020Menschen
Self
1982
The School for Scandal
2002Goldene Henne
Self
1995
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
Self
2012
Ein Herz für Kinder
Self
1998
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Self (archive footage)
2024
Days That Shook the World
Self (archive footage)
2003
Zero Hour
Self (archival footage)
2004
Road to 9/11
Self (archive footage)
2017
Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown
Self (archive footage)
2026
Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
Self (archive footage)
2024
Код доступа
Self
2017
Album
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2008
Legends of Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2016
Faraway, So Close!
Mikhail Gorbachev
1993
Three Wars
Self (archive footage)
2023
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
Self (archive footage)
1999
Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator
Self (archive footage)
2023
Zero Days
Self (archive footage)
2016
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
Self (archive footage)
2022
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
Self (archive footage)
2016
Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
Self
2017
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
The Soviet Story
Self (archive footage)
2008
The Way I See It
Self (archive footage)
2020
The 11th Hour
Self
2007
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Self (archive footage)
2019
The Second Russian Revolution
Self
1991
Traitors
Self (archive footage)
2024
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World
Self (archive footage)
2025
In the Grip of Gazprom
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Children of the 20th Congress
(archive footage)
1988
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
Self (archive footage)
2022
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
Self (archive footage)
1996
Hammer & Tickle
Self (archive footage)
2007
Cuba, l'histoire secrète
2016
Desert Storm: The War Begins
Self (archive footage)
1991
When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World
Self
1999
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
Self - Former General Secretary CCCP
2025
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Self (archive footage)
2020
Laissez-faire
Self (archive footage)
2015
Frenemies: Putin and Trump
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)
2017
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
SLEEPERS
Mikhail Gorbachev
2025
The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
Self
1999
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Self
1984
Meeting Gorbachev
Self
2019
30 Years of Democracy
Self (archive footage)
2019
Palme
Self (archive footage)
2012
How to Stage a Coup
2017
The Battle of Chernobyl
Self
2007
The Art of Dissent
Self - Subject (archive footage)
2021
My Favorite War
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020
Guts and Glory
Self (archive footage)
2002
Disco and Atomic War
Self (archive footage)
2009
Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung
Self (archive footage)
1990
Putin's Witnesses
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2018
Quando c'era Berlinguer
Himself
2014
The Arrow of Time
Self
2017
Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
Self (archive footage)
2021
Stasi: A State Against Its People
Self (archive footage)
2021
Hype: The Obama Effect
Self (archive footage)
2008
The Man Who Defied Beijing
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!
Self (archive footage)
2006
The Last Days of the USSR
Self
2011
Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
Self (archive footage)
1991
Disaster at Chernobyl
Self (archive footage)
2004
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
2010
Freedom's Fury
2006New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
Self
1992
Sakharov. Two Lives
Self (archive footage)
2021
The Man Who Challenged Putin
Self
2023
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Self (archive footage)
2012
Reagan
Self
1998But... Seriously
Self (archive footage)
1994
Free to Rock
Self
2017
The Russian Woodpecker
Former President Russia (archive footage)
2015
Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende
Self
2012
Latest News About Doomsday
Self
1991Der springende Punkt
1987
Here to Stay
Self
2009
The Long Breakup
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020
Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR
Self (archive footage)
2021
Our Africa
Self
2018
Those Who Dare
Self (archive footage)
2015
Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde
2003
Coup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War
1995
Hullu vuosi 1991
Self
2021
A Bitter Taste of Freedom
Self
2011Lusia in Wonderland
Self
2018
Gorbachev. Heaven
Self
2021
Satans mördare
Self
1995
Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World
Self
The Collapse of The Soviet Union
Self
2006
Era Of Dance
Self (archive footage)
2017
Gorbacheva
2024
Day of Revelation
1989Die Sekretäre
Self (archive footage)
1999