“Moving, insightful. [Along with] 'Under the Sun' and 'Putin’s Witnesses,' [this film seals Mansky's] reputation as one of the most essential working documentarians — with gutsy bravado to match his delicate formal finesse.” —Variety

“Underpinned by good journalistic rigour. A valuable historical account of the former president of the Soviet Union’s latter-day perspectives on the great global transformations he took part in at the time of the country’s dissolution.” —Cineuropa

“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.” —Hollywood Reporter

“Inquisitive, elegiac; a humanistic portrait.” —Eye for Film

“Mansky [digs] into the history and motivations of the man... for those who lived through the period of history that belongs to Mikhail Gorbachev and the dissolution of the Soviet Empire, or who study it, there is much value here.” —It's Just Movies

“An excellent, excellent film. Wily indeed; [yet, in the film, Gorbachev] is also clear about his own political evolution, and his intentions in specific decisions that he made.” —KPCC’s FilmWeek

“An important portrait of a leader who contemplates his life’s work, his love, and his legacy.” —EMRO