1979: Big Bang of the Present
1979: Urknall der Gegenwart
Release: 2019-12-10
·Runtime: 89m
·★ 5.7
Documentary
History
TV Movie
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.
Production Countries
Austria
France
Germany
Poland
Production Companies
K2 Productions
OutreMer Film
RBB
Telewizja Polska
ORF
INA
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Saddam Hussein
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
David Owen
as Self - Politician (1979)
Lech Wałęsa
as Self - Shipyard Worker (1979)
Jimmy Carter
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Leonid Brezhnev
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Charles Moore
as Self - Political Journalist (1979)
Roy Hattersley
as Self - Politician (1979)
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran
as Self (archive footage)
Michael Heseltine
as Self - Politician (1979)
Deng Xiaoping
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Leopoldo Galtieri
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Helmut Schmidt
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Ruhollah Khomeini
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Pope John Paul II
as Self (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher
as Self - Politician (archive footage)