Login OR sign up for a new account
RANDOM MOVIE
Support SaltyPopcorn on Ko-fi
Sign up for the SaltyPopcorn free weekly newsletter
Trending
One Battle After Another (2025)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2025)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2025)
Mother! (2025)
Bad Boys For Life (2025)
Frozen (2025)
Joker (2025)
Wicked: For Good (2025)
Deadpool & Wolverine (2025)
Mission:Impossible (1996)
News From Planet Mars (2025)
Noah (2025)
The Battle of Jangsari (2025)
Joker: Folie à Deux (2025)
Mufasa: The Lion King (2025)
Salty Popcorn > 2019 > Documentary | Biography | History > Meeting Gorbachev
Search Page
ADVERTISMENT
2019 | DIRECTED BY WERNER HERZOG AND ANDRE SINGER

Meeting Gorbachev

No rating yet! Leave your score below.
No cover art for Meeting Gorbachev
Join to follow this movie
Movie Stats
Year
2019
Runtime
 90 minutes (1 hr 30 mins)
Select Cast
Yuri Andropov
James Baker
Leonid Brezhnev
Konstantin Chernenko
Mikhail Gorbachev
Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva
Full cast and crew
Salty Popcorn Stats
First viewed:
4th Aug 2022
Last viewed:
19th Aug 2025
Total views:
5
Release Dates
US release date
 US release
3rd May 2019
6 years 4 months 30 days ago
Total Grosses
United Kingdom Flag
UK total gross
  £41.4 Thousand
United States Flag
US total gross
  $251.1 Thousand
Cinema Tickets Sold
United Kingdom Flag
UK tickets sold
5,821 aprox.
United States Flag
US tickets sold
27,408 aprox.
Box Office Breakdown
UK Box Office
  • Released: 8th Nov '19
  • Debut position: 30
  • Highest position: 30
  • Debut gross: £18.4 Thousand
  • Total chart weeks: 6
US Box Office
  • Release: 3rd May '19
  • Debut weekend: 24th May '19
  • Debut position: 34
  • Highest position: 32
  • Debut gross: $30.3 Thousand
  • Total chart weeks: 8
Global Box Office
  • No global cinema data.

ADVERTISMENT
Buy from Amazon.co.uk


As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Buy from Amazon.co.uk
Directed by
werner herzog Werner Herzog
andre singer Andre Singer
Starring
Yuri AndropovHimself
James BakerHimself
Leonid BrezhnevHimself
Konstantin ChernenkoHimself
Mikhail GorbachevHimself
Raisa Maximovna GorbachevaHerself
Werner HerzogHimself - Interviewer and Narrator
Miklos NemethHimself
Vladimir PutinHimself
Ronald ReaganHimself
George ShultzHimself
Andre SingerHimself
Horst TeltschikHimself
Margaret ThatcherHerself
Lech WalesaHimself
Boris YeltsinHimself
ADVERTISMENT
Popularity over the last 10 days
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2nd Oct 2025
1st Oct 2025
30th Sep 2025
29th Sep 2025
28th Sep 2025
27th Sep 2025
26th Sep 2025
25th Sep 2025
24th Sep 2025
23rd Sep 2025
UK Box Office Info
Highest Place
30
Weeks top 15
0
Total weeks
6
Total UK Gross:
£41,385
UK Box Office Chart History
Date
Place
Week
Total
Meeting Gorbachev
8 Nov 2019
30N
£18,351
£20,449
15 Nov 2019
40▼
£2,503
£32,811
22 Nov 2019
47▼
£1,930
£36,670
29 Nov 2019
53▼
£615
£38,284
6 Dec 2019
67▼
£363
£39,861
13 Dec 2019
60▲
£309
£41,385

* Box office information before 1997 is continually being researched by our team and can be innacurate.

North American Box Office Info
Highest Place
32
Weeks top 15
0
Total Weeks
8
Total US Gross:
$251,057
North American Box Office Chart History
Date
Place
Week
Total
24 May 2019
34N
$30,310
$147,187
31 May 2019
32▲
$18,341
$192,064
14 Jun 2019
37N
$2,649
$223,797
21 Jun 2019
38▼
$1,708
$228,004
12 Jul 2019
42N
$1,549
$240,704
19 Jul 2019
40▲
$453
$242,600
26 Jul 2019
36▲
$3,778
$246,372
23 Aug 2019
49N
$1,009
$251,057

* Box office information before 1997 is continually being researched by our team and can be innacurate.

Global Box Office Chart History
No US box office info

* Box office information befroe 2018 for global figures is continually being researched and hence is not complete and can be innacurate.

Global Box Office Release Breakdown
No global box office info
'Meeting Gorbachev' is trending today
  1. One Battle After Another (2025)
  1. Joker (2019)
  1. News From Planet Mars (2016)
  1. Noah (2014)
  1. The Battle of Jangsari (2019)
  1. Thomas & Friends: Sodors Legend of the Lost Treasure (2015)
  1. Moon Over Parador (1988)
  1. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
  1. Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
  1. Irreplaceable You (2018)
Top Grossing Movie Chart Position
UK total gross
£41,385
8639
Embrace of the Serpent
8640
Meeting Gorbachev
8641
Taking Woodstock

Genres
Documentary
Documentary
Biography
Biography
History
History
Popular in these countries
  • Brazil Brazil
  • Kosovo Kosovo
  • Vietnam Vietnam
  • Bosnia And Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina
News from around the web
Meeting Gorbachev review – Werner Herzog pulls his punches  The Guardian Sat, 9th November 2019

‘Meeting Gorbachev’ Review: Sitting Down With the Last Soviet Leader (Published 2019)  The New York Times Thu, 2nd May 2019

Why Mikhail Gorbachev Is a Perfect Subject for Werner Herzog  Slate Thu, 2nd May 2019

Meeting Gorbachev Review  empireonline.com Mon, 4th November 2019

The 10-minute interview: Werner Herzog on Meeting Gorbachev  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Fri, 3rd May 2019

'Meeting Gorbachev' Review: Werner Herzog's Disappointingly Cozy Doc  Variety Thu, 20th September 2018