1979: Big Bang of the Present

12/10/2019

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1hr 29min

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Documentary

,History

,TV Movie

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

Cast

Haideh Daragahi
Shahin Nawai
Chahla Chafiq
Chris Niedenthal
Leszek Balcerowicz

Director

Dirk van den Berg

INFORMATION

Production Companies

K2 Productions
OutreMer Film
RBB
Telewizja Polska
ORF
INA

Production Countries

Austria
France
Germany
Poland

LANGUAGES

Mandarin
English
French
German
Italian
Persian
Polish

Cast

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)

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