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.
Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson
as Self
Marju Lauristin
as Self
Михаил Горбачёв
as Self (archive footage)
Lennart Meri
as Self (archive footage)
Edgar Savisaar
as Self (archive footage)
