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1979: Big Bang of the Present
1979: Big Bang of the Present
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1979: Big Bang of the Present

2019
Directed byDirk van den Berg
1h 29m

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.

CAST
Haideh DaragahiSelf - Literature Professor (1979)Shahin NawaiSelf - Biologist (1979)
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Chahla Chafiq
Self - Student (1979)
Chris NiedenthalSelf - Photojournalist (1979)
Leszek BalcerowiczSelf - Economist (1979)
Stanisław CiosekSelf - Politician (1979)
Alfred WierzbickiSelf - Student (1979)
Hanna SuchockaSelf - Jurist (1979)
Roger GarsideSelf - Diplomat (1979)
Wei JingshengSelf - Political Dissident (1979)
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DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie
STATUSReleased
RATING
5.7

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