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1979: Big Bang of the Present (2019)

1979: Big Bang of the Present (2019)

History TV Movie Documentary
Release Date: 2019, December 10
Directors: Dirk van den Berg, Pascal Verroust
Countries: Austria, Germany, France, Poland
Production: K2 Productions, OutreMer Film, RBB, Telewizja Polska, ORF, INA
Cast: Jimmy Carter, Margaret Thatcher, Leopoldo Galtieri, Saddam Hussein, Leonid Brezhnev, Pope John Paul II, Haideh Daragahi, Shahin Nawai, Chahla Chafiq, Chris Niedenthal, Leszek Balcerowicz, Stanisław Ciosek

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

cold war 1970s poland feminism ecologism united kingdom iran street riots communist china economic crisis islamic revolution