1979: Big Bang of the Present
Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The nuclear accident at the Harrisburg power plant and the birth of ecological activism. The year 1979, the beginning of the future.
Release Date
December 10, 2019Runtime
89 minDirected by
Dirk K. van den Berg, Pascal VerroustWritten by
Pascal Verroust, Dirk K. van den BergLanguage
GermanBudget
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ReleasedCast
Charles Moore
Self - Political Journalist (1979)Michael Heseltine
Self - Politician (1979)Roy Hattersley
Self - Politician (1979)David Owen
Self - Politician (1979)Lech Wałęsa
Self - Shipyard Worker (1979)Helmut Schmidt
Self - Politician (archive footage)Jimmy Carter
Self - Politician (archive footage)James Callaghan
Self - Politician (archive footage)Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Self - Politician (archive footage)Ruhollah Khomeini
Self - Politician (archive footage)Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran
Self (archive footage)Pope John Paul II
Self (archive footage)Deng Xiaoping
Self - Politician (archive footage)Margaret Thatcher
Self - Politician (archive footage)Leonid Brezhnev
Self - Politician (archive footage)Saddam Hussein
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