1979: Big Bang of the Present (2019)
1h 29m
Running Time
December 10, 2019Release Date
1979: Big Bang of the Present (2019)
1h 29m
Running Time
December 10, 2019Release Date
Network & Production Companies




Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

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)

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)

Jan Berris
Self - Press Liaison (1979)

Eva Quistorp
Self - Activist (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
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Leopoldo Galtieri
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Dirk K. van den Berg
Director / Producer / Writer

Pascal Verroust
Director / Writer / Producer

Delphine Thelliez
Sound Editor / Sound Mixer

Frederik Walker
Camera Operator

Mathieu Descamps
Sound

Sven Klöpper
Camera Operator

David W. Lesch
Technical Advisor

Frédéric Vidal
Editor

Valérie Canton-Pont
Researcher

Olivia Furtwängler
Camera Operator / Associate Producer

Christophe Gautier
Color Grading

Frank Bösch
Technical Advisor

Nico Di Biase
Production Director

Christian von Behr
Commissioning Editor
Media.

Details.
Release DateDecember 10, 2019
Original Name1979: Urknall der Gegenwart
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 29m
Genres
Last updated:
This Movie Is About.
1970s
cold war
feminism
street riots
iran
poland
united kingdom
economic crisis
communist china
ecologism
islamic revolution
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