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When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But as cries for help from the Baltic States were met with silence from the international community at large, two small nations – Iceland and Denmark – answered the call, motivated by the personal connections of their foreign ministers, Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson and Uffe Elleman Jensen.Read moreLess
When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But as cries for help from the Baltic States were met with silence from the international community at large, two small nations – Iceland and Denmark – answered the call, motivated by the personal connections of their foreign ministers, Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson and Uffe Elleman Jensen.
The story
When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But as cries for help from the Baltic States were met with silence from the international community at large, two small nations – Iceland and Denmark – answered the call, motivated by the personal connections of their foreign ministers, Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson and Uffe Elleman Jensen.
Cast & crew
Marju LauristinSelf
Mikhail GorbachevSelf (archive footage)
Lennart MeriSelf (archive footage)
Edgar SavisaarSelf (archive footage)Explore the crew
- Director
- Ólafur Rögnvaldsson
- Producer
- Ólafur Rögnvaldsson
- Director of Photography
- Ólafur Rögnvaldsson
- Writer
- Kolfinna Baldvinsdóttir
- Editor
- Madli Lääne
- Producer
- Laura Almantaitė
- Producer
- Tiit Pruuli
- Editor
- Martin Männik
- Editor
- Steinþór Birgisson
- Director of Photography
- Uldis Cekulis
- Director of Photography
- Þorfinnur Guðnason
- Director of Photography
- Ants Martin Vahur