In the coming weeks, more than 4,000 members of the European Film Academy will judge and vote on the selected films. The finalists will be announced on 9 November 2021 at the European Film Festival in Seville, Spain, and the European Film Academy Awards will be presented on 11 December in Berlin.
Movies Gorbachev. Paradise The world premiere took place in 2020 at the IDFA Documentary Film Festival, where it won the award for best feature film. It has been praised and shown at several international festivals.
The film tells the story of a man whose changes changed the world. He was open (loudness) and conversions (perestroika) architect, he demolished the Berlin Wall. But he also kept quiet about the Chernobyl accident, he suppressed protesters in Tbilisi and Baku. The Soviet empire collapsed during his reign, and the people themselves now condemn him for it. With the burden of past events on his shoulders, a lonely man spends his days in an empty house in the suburbs of Moscow.
Director Vitaly Manski says of his film: “Mikhail Gorbachev will one day have monuments around the world. Somewhere very soon, somewhere – like Russia – it will be many years before there is any sense of what this man has done. But I wanted behind the coolness of bronze or marble, you would see a man who wanted to make the world a better place.
The film’s national premiere will take place on August 26 at the cinema Splendid Palace. From August 27, it will be shown in Riga, Talsi, Liepaja, Cesis and elsewhere.
movies Gorbachev. Paradise and study Vertov (Latvia) and Hypermarket Films (Czech Republic) co – production. In its creative team, the Latvian side is represented by sound director Anrijs Krenbergs, composer Kārlis Auzāns, editing director Jevgēņijs Ribalko, as well as director Vitalijs Manskis and producer Natālija Manska. The film was made in collaboration with Czech television and TV channels Art a Current weather.
It has been financially supported by the National Film Center and the Czech Film Foundation.
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