The Gorbachev commercial wasn’t just a piece of advertising ephemera. It was also a multimillion-dollar short film and the creators were as concerned with artistic standards as selling pizza
The future turned out to be much dimmer than the ad anticipated. A little less than a year after the ad was filmed, in August 1998, the Russian financial system collapsed. The economic recovery that had begun to take hold was wiped out.
The ad in question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgm14D1jHUw
More: In 1997, the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Here’s a good article from https://reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1sh1eq6/in_1997_the_former_soviet_leader_mikhail/: The Gorbachev commercial wasn’t just a piece of advertising ephemera. It was also a multimillion-dollar short film and the creators were as concerned with artistic standards as selling pizza The future turned out to be much dimmer than the ad anticipated. A little less than a year after the ad was filmed, in August 1998 More here: In 1997, the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman.