A lyrical portrait of a former political giant in his twilight years, Vitaly Mansky's Gorbachev. Heaven is an unusually intimate docu-memoir that feels like an epitaph.
Thirty years after his perestroika program of democratic reforms triggered the collapse of the Soviet Union, liberated Eastern Europe from Communist tyranny and effectively ended the Cold War, former Russian premier Mikhail Gorbachev is living in diminished circumstances with a bitterly contested legacy.
His home is a palatial villa outside Moscow, part fortress, part mausoleum, which he only occupies on a temporary loan basis.