Film
1979: Big Bang of the Present
2019Directed by Pascal Verroust, Dirk van den Berg
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
About 1979: Big Bang of the Present
- Documentary
- History
- TV Movie
Synopsis
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.
- Directors
- Pascal Verroust
- Dirk van den Berg
- Writers
- Pascal Verroust
- Dirk van den Berg
- Original title
- 1979: Urknall der Gegenwart
