He Came to Give Us Freedom (2011)

• 72%
• 2011
• Documentary
• Andrei Lazarev
• Sergey Nurmamed
• Ivan Skvortsov
• Leonid Parfyonov
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Eduard Shevardnadze

Parfenov's film about Mikhail Gorbachev, "He Came to Give Us Freedom", is an attempt to understand why the Stavropol guy had that kind of internal freedom, and how he managed to preserve it while getting to the heights of power without spilling it. Parfenov talks with the first president of the USSR about the most important phenomenon in Gorbachev's life, his love to his wife, Raisa. The film has a lot of politically important allusions to the present times, bold and strong conclusions, and Gorbachev's confessions.