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1979: Big Bang of the Present
2019, Dec 10
1h 29m
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.
Directed by
Dirk K. van den Berg, Pascal Verroust
Written by
Dirk K. van den Berg, Pascal Verroust
Jimmy Carter
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran
Self (archive footage)
Roy Hattersley
Self - Politician (1979)
Pope John Paul II
Self (archive footage)
Leonid Brezhnev
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Deng Xiaoping
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Saddam Hussein
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Ruhollah Khomeini
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Helmut Schmidt
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Lech Wałęsa
Self - Shipyard Worker (1979)
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Self - Politician (archive footage)
James Callaghan
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Michael Heseltine
Self - Politician (1979)
David Owen
Self - Politician (1979)
Charles Moore
Self - Political Journalist (1979)
Haideh Daragahi
Self - Literature Professor (1979)
Shahin Nawai
Self - Biologist (1979)
Chahla Chafiq
Self - Student (1979)
Chris Niedenthal
Self - Photojournalist (1979)
Leszek Balcerowicz
Self - Economist (1979)
Stanisław Ciosek
Self - Politician (1979)
Alfred Wierzbicki
Self - Student (1979)
Hanna Suchocka
Self - Jurist (1979)
Roger Garside
Self - Diplomat (1979)
Wei Jingsheng
Self - Political Dissident (1979)
Chas Freeman
Self - US DoS Official (1979)
Jan Berris
Self - Press Liaison (1979)
Eva Quistorp
Self - Activist (1979)
Leopoldo Galtieri
Self - Politician (archive footage)
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