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Documentary filmed on May 30-June 3 1990 in USA during Mikhail Gorbachev's American voyage to take part in Washington Summit visit and sign bilateral Soviet-American Chemical Weapons Accord.
Direction
Soviet crew capturing their leader on American soil—tension in every frame.
Production
Rare 1990 footage of a superpower literally dissolving mid-handshake.

Director
Leonid Makhnach
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