Even in his dotage, stooped and tissue-skinned and walker-dependent, the former (and final) Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev is an imposing, even intimidating figure — formidable enough to ...

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Sergei Loznitsa trains his thoughtful, formally rigorous eye on the 2017 Victory Day celebrations at Berlin's Soviet War Memorial. The setting for Sergei Loznitsa‘s newest documentary, delivered with ...

Sometimes you don’t realize you needed a cinematic pairing until you see it, as with Werner Herzog interviewing Mikhail Gorbachev for the German filmmaker’s biographical doc of the consequential 20th ...

There are times when sport isn’t a metaphor — it’s simply war, a skirmish of ideals. Think of the Soviet Union’s rival-crushing Cold War hockey team, which between 1978 and 1992 won three Olympic ...

Russian docmaker Vitaly Mansky asks Mikhail Gorbachev some tough questions — but even when he doesn't get answers, the results are remarkable. Even in his dotage, stooped and tissue-skinned and walker ...