• Director(s):

    DIVERS

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, ARTLINE FILMS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide (except French-speaking Belgium, Estonia, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Lithuania, Norway, Ireland, Greece, Slovakia, Czechia, Germany, Ukraine, France, Finland and French-speaking Switzerland).

  • Production year:

    2011

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

The man who started fighting the decline is Mikhail Gorbachev.

Glasnost and Perestroika inspire hope in the East and West. The Soviet Union suddenly drops its historical role as a brakesman and becomes the motor of the reform process. As a consequence, the party elites in the satellites are put under increasing pressure.