A movie about former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev from Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way and Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone. Gorbachev serves as a consultant on the project, which captures the dissolution of the USSR through his eyes. Gorbachev was the first and last President of the Soviet Union, serving from 1988 until the union's dissolution in 1991. He ushered democracy into the Soviet block by introducing glasnost and perestroika and helped end the Cold War.