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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв, tr. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov; IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil sʲɪrˈɡʲejəvʲɪtɕ ɡərbɐˈtɕof] ( listen); born 2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. He was the only general secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born during the Communist rule.
Gorbachev was born in Stavropol Krai into a peasant Ukrainian–Russian family, and in his teens operated combine harvesters on collective farms. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1955 with a degree in law. While he was at the university, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and soon became very active within it. In 1970, he was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Kraikom, First Secretary to the Supreme Soviet in 1974, and appointed a member of the Politburo in 1979. Within three years of the deaths of Soviet Leaders Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko, Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo in 1985. Before he reached the post, he had occasionally been mentioned in western newspapers as a likely next leader and a man of the younger generation at the top level.
Actors: Ridley Scott (producer), Tony Scott (producer), Christoph Waltz (actor), Mike Newell (director), Michael Douglas (actor), Frank Langella (actor), David Davoli (miscellaneous crew), David Davoli (producer), Brian Gary (producer), David W. Zucker (producer), Stewart Mackinnon (producer), Mark Sennet (producer), Kevin Hood (writer), David Pieper (miscellaneous crew), Troy Westergaard (producer),
Genres: ,Actors: Féodor Atkine (actor), André Dussollier (actor), Bernard Nissile (actor), Jean-François Delassus (director), Karim Belkhadra (actor), Alain Ollivier (actor), Sophia Morizet (composer), Grégoire Gros (actor), Michel Meyer (writer), Olivier Martin (editor), Jerôme Bellay (producer),
Genres: History,Actors: Giorgio Colangeli (actor), Anna Bonaiuto (actress), Andrea Occhipinti (producer), Flavio Bucci (actor), Piera Degli Esposti (actress), Achille Brugnini (actor), Fanny Ardant (actress), Paolo Graziosi (actor), Paolo Sorrentino (writer), Paolo Sorrentino (director), Toni Servillo (actor), Giovanni Vettorazzo (actor), Pietro Biondi (actor), Nicola Giuliano (producer), Teho Teardo (composer),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Joe Kraemer (composer), John Schwert (producer), Paul Willson (actor), Yuval Or (editor), Thomas Ethan Harris (producer), Maribeth Monroe (actress), David Woods (writer), David Woods (director), David Woods (producer), Matthew J. Evans (actor), Lauren Eckstrom (actress), Aaren Cortes (actor), Bradley Bolek (actor), Bryan Suchey (actor), Tylar Imani Hodoh (actor),
Plot: Set in 1987, a young American boy with a large birthmark on his neck embarks on his first day at a new school. He faces the insults of his classmates as well as his own insecurities. He begins to come to terms with his individuality with a little help from none other than Mikhail Gorbachev.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Short,Actors: Giacomo Piperno (actor), Claudio Spadaro (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Luis Molteni (actor), Roberto Nobile (actor), Ted Rusoff (actor), James Cromwell (actor), Cyrus Elias (actor), Ben Gazzara (actor), Giulio Base (actor), Giuliano Gemma (actor), Andy Luotto (actor), Cary Elwes (actor), Jon Voight (actor), Jon Voight (actor),
Plot: Following the premature death of his mother, Karol Wojtyla is brought up by his father in the Polish city of Krakow during the first half of the 20th century. An outstanding student with a magnetic personality, he dreams of becoming an actor. When his homeland is invaded by the Nazis in 1939, he and his friends secretly oppose the systematic persecution of their Polish culture. But, with the death of his father and the lacerating solitude which accompanies this loss, Karol's personal "resistance" takes on a new form and he decides to follow a priestly vocation. At the end of the war, Poland falls into the grip of Soviet totalitarianism. The newly ordained Karol is constantly surrounded by young people whom he teaches to safeguard and defend human dignity. He could be considered a serious threat to the regime, but the Communist authorities merely see him as an innocuous intellectual and even encourage his nomination for the position of bishop. Karol Wojtila is the youngest bishop in the history of Poland. When he is appointed Cardinal, Karol is more intransigent in the spiritual guidance of his homeland, becoming a real and proper thorn in the side of the Communist government. And the whole Catholic world begins to wonder who he is. On the death of Pope John Paul I in 1978, the cardinals of the Conclave decide that Woytjla is the right man to lead replace him. Thus Karol leaves his beloved Poland to become Pope John Paul II. His free, unconventional attitude alarms several prelates, but immediately wins the hearts of the people. In a age paralyzed by fear and ideology, the new Pope shows everybody again the overwhelming fascination of Christianity: this is the beginning of a deep change, which will affect the whole world and the Church itself, as a sort of "contagion". He miraculously survives an attempt on his life in 1981, and not even this event curbs his mission. Thanks to his unshakable tenacity , Pope John Paul II helps to change the course of history: the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 decrees the collapse of Communism. But the Pope does not stop being the voice of Christ, even among the injustices of the capitalistic Western world, even among the provocations and challenges of modern times . The Great Jubilee of 2000 is the most moving evidence of his mission: 3 million young people in love with the Pope gather in Rome, bringing with them the whole world's hopes. This world has learned to look to him, now old and shaky, as a ray of light in the heart of darkness.
Keywords: assassination-attempt, bishop, cardinal-the-priest, catholic-church, character-name-in-title, charisma, church, crowd, destiny, fameActors: Francis X. McCarthy (actor), Sean McCann (actor), Mark Antony Krupa (actor), Robert Higden (actor), Frank Fontaine (actor), Richard Jutras (actor), Aidan Devine (actor), Zeljko Ivanek (actor), Richard Fitzpatrick (actor), James Brolin (actor), John Bourgeois (actor), Alan Fawcett (actor), Alain Goulem (actor), Daniel Pilon (actor), Frank Moore (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,Actors: Gennadiy Yukhtin (actor), Alex Norton (actor), Billy Goldenberg (composer), Bundy Chanock (miscellaneous crew), Jon Voight (actor), Jason Robards (actor), Vincent Riotta (actor), Annette Crosbie (actress), Sebastian Shaw (actor), Roger Gimbel (producer), Ron Talsky (costume designer), Trevor Cooper (actor), Ian McDiarmid (actor), Lorcan Cranitch (actor), Ernest Kinoy (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Garrick Hagon (actor), Robert Beatty (actor), Timothy West (actor), Bruce Boa (actor), Shane Rimmer (actor), Don Fellows (actor), Ralph Nossek (actor), Anthony Bate (actor), John Kidd (actor), Ted Maynard (actor), Jerry Harte (actor), John Quarmby (actor), Ron Berglas (actor), Brian Lapping (producer), Igor Gridneff (actor),
Genres: Drama,