Meeting Gorbachev

Vera is a troubled teenager fresh out of school feeling trapped in her provincial port town during the turbulent times of perestroika. Her days and nights are filled with drinking, sex, and family dysfunction.

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Vasili Pichul

Cast

Natalya Negoda, Andrey Sokolov, Yuriy Nazarov

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.

Runtime

1h 18m

Director

Jaak Kilmi

Cast

Gerda Viira, Oskar Vuks, Toomas Pool

On April 26, 1986, a 1,000 feet high flame rises into the sky of the Ukraine. The fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant just exploded. A battle begins in which 500,000 men are engaged throughout the Soviet Union to "liquidate" the radioactivity, build the "sarcophagus" of the damaged reactor and save the world from a seco...

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

Thomas Johnson

Cast

Tim Birkett

Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition. Through the lives of these former schoolmates, this intimate film reveals how they have ad...

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Robin Hessman

A dramatization of the 1986 Reykjavik summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.