1979: Big Bang of the Present
10/12/2019
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.
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Haideh Daragahi
as Self - Literature Professor (1979)
Shahin Nawai
as Self - Biologist (1979)
Chahla Chafiq
as Self - Student (1979)
Chris Niedenthal
as Self - Photojournalist (1979)
Leszek Balcerowicz
as Self - Economist (1979)
Stanisław Ciosek
as Self - Politician (1979)
Alfred Wierzbicki
as Self - Student (1979)
Hanna Suchocka
as Self - Jurist (1979)
Roger Garside
as Self - Diplomat (1979)
Wei Jingsheng
as Self - Political Dissident (1979)
Chas Freeman
as Self - US DoS Official (1979)
Charles Moore
as Self - Political Journalist (1979)
Michael Heseltine
as Self - Politician (1979)
Roy Hattersley
as Self - Politician (1979)
David Owen
as Self - Politician (1979)
Lech Wałęsa
as Self - Shipyard Worker (1979)
Jan Berris
as Self - Press Liaison (1979)
Eva Quistorp
as Self - Activist (1979)
Helmut Schmidt
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
James Callaghan
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Ruhollah Khomeini
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran
as Self (archive footage)
John Paul II.
as Self (archive footage)
Deng Xiaoping
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Leonid Brezhnev
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Saddam Hussein
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Leopoldo Galtieri
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
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