Directors: Werner Herzog, Andre Singer Producers: Lucki Stipetic, Svetlana Palmer
Description:
Werner Herzog meeting Mikhail Gorbachev gives a fresh insight into
one of the most significant happenings of the late 20th Century.
Although the last President of the Soviet Union is an ailing man, his
mind is sharp. His three encounters with Herzog are engaging,
insightful, moving, and important.
Biography:
Werner
Herzog was born in Munich. He has written, produced, and directed
more than 70 films, published books of prose, staged several operas,
acted in films and TV (Jack Reacher, The Mandalorian),
and founded the Rogue Film School. His features include Lessons of
Darkness (1992), Grizzly Man (2005),Encounters at the
End of the World (2007), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010), Into the
Abyss (2011) Into the Inferno (2016), Meeting Gorbachev (2019), Family Romance, LLC (2020) and most recently Fireball –
Visitors from Darker Worlds(2020) a documentary feature
co-directed with Clive Oppenheimer.
André Singer has
had a long and distinguished career as both filmmaker and
anthropologist. In the former capacity he originally worked for
Granada Television in the UK making films for World in Action and
Disappearing World. For the BBC, he founded the documentary series Fine Cut (which later became Storyville) where he met and
worked as either an Executive or Producer with many leading
filmmakers, such as Jean Rouch; Fred Wiseman, DA Pennebaker, and
Vikram Jayanti, and where he first linked up with Werner Herzog by
commissioning Lessons of Darkness. The rest, as they say is
history, and he has played a role subsequently on sixteen of Werner’s
films. As a director he was awarded the Peabody and Emmy for his film Night Will Fall (2014), and co-directed the criticallyacclaimed Meeting Gorbachev (2019) with Werner Herzog. As
an Executive Producer and through his company, Spring Films, he
worked on Joshua Oppenheimer’s academy award nominated films The
Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, and has recently
executive produced Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer’s new
documentary feature, Fireball – Visitors from Darker Worlds.
