Film · Documentary, History, TV Movie
1979: Big Bang of the Present (2019)
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.
- Director
- Pascal Verroust, Dirk van den Berg
- Writers
- Pascal Verroust, Dirk van den Berg
- Country
- Germany, France
- Language
- German
- Release date
- December 10, 2019
- Original title
- 1979: Urknall der Gegenwart
Cast
- Haideh DaragahiSelf - Literature Professor (1979)
- Shahin NawaiSelf - Biologist (1979)
- Chahla ChafiqSelf - Student (1979)
- Chris NiedenthalSelf - Photojournalist (1979)
Leszek BalcerowiczSelf - Economist (1979)- Stanisław CiosekSelf - Politician (1979)
- Alfred WierzbickiSelf - Student (1979)
- Hanna SuchockaSelf - Jurist (1979)
- Roger GarsideSelf - Diplomat (1979)
- Wei JingshengSelf - Political Dissident (1979)
- Chas FreemanSelf - US DoS Official (1979)
Charles MooreSelf - Political Journalist (1979)
Michael HeseltineSelf - Politician (1979)
Roy HattersleySelf - Politician (1979)
David OwenSelf - Politician (1979)
Lech WałęsaSelf - Shipyard Worker (1979)- Jan BerrisSelf - Press Liaison (1979)
- Eva QuistorpSelf - Activist (1979)
Helmut SchmidtSelf - Politician (archive footage)
Jimmy CarterSelf - Politician (archive footage)
