本片是一部拉脱维亚纪录片片，由尤里斯·波德涅克斯导演，由鲍里斯·尼古拉耶维奇·叶利钦/米哈伊尔·谢尔盖耶维奇·戈尔巴乔夫/安德烈·萨哈罗夫主演。
剧情简介：An exploration of the changes in the Soviet Union. Includes footage of the failed coup against Gorbachev. While making this film the director, Yuris Podnieks, was arrested, beaten and had his camera confisticated.
In 1987, Juris Podnieks and his team began a series of films describing the inevitable changes in the Soviet Union during the Perestroika era. Podnieks went to the radioactive forbidden zone in Chernobyl, to the blood-stained streets of Uzbekistan, to the ruins in Armenia after the earthquake. The film looks back upon the five years of the Perestroika and ends with the astonishing events of the five day coup in August 1991: the end of the empire.
外文名：Impērijas gals
别名：End of Empire
类型：纪录片 / 历史
地区：拉脱维亚
导演：尤里斯·波德涅克斯
演员：鲍里斯·尼古拉耶维奇·叶利钦 / 米哈伊尔·谢尔盖耶维奇·戈尔巴乔夫 / 安德烈·萨哈罗夫 / Gennady Yanayev / Dmitry Yazov / Vladimir Kryuchkov
