Honouring President Gorbachev for Bringing Down the Wall

President Gorbachev received the CINEMA FOR PEACE Honorary Award at a historic dinner on the eve of the 20. anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. At the China Club in Berlin Sir Bob Geldof, Plácido Domingo and the German Foreign Minister of the reunification era, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, held very personal laudatory speeches. The dinner was chaired among others by arts patron Dieter Rosenkranz and Alexander Lebedev.

On this very special occasion the chairman and CEO of MTV Networks International, Bill Roedy, presented additionally the MTV Free Your Mind Award to President Gorbachev. The CINEMA FOR PEACE private dinner also included a charity auction, offering various works of art connected to the event of the fall of the Wall, among others an original part of the Wall transformed into a unique piece of art by Kiddy Citny. The proceeds of the event will be allocated to the Gorbachev Foundation, benefitting the Raisa Gorbachev Memorial Institute in Sankt Petersburg, and to the CINEMA FOR PEACE Foundation.