1979: Big Bang of the Present
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.
Genres
Cast
Haideh Daragahi
Shahin Nawai
Chahla Chafiq
Chris Niedenthal
Leszek Balcerowicz
Stanisław Ciosek
Alfred Wierzbicki
Hanna Suchocka
Roger Garside
Wei Jingsheng
Chas Freeman
Charles Moore
Michael Heseltine
Roy Hattersley
David Owen
Lech Wałęsa
Jan Berris
Eva Quistorp
Helmut Schmidt
Jimmy Carter
James Callaghan
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Ruhollah Khomeini
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Pope John Paul II
Deng Xiaoping
Margaret Thatcher
Leonid Brezhnev
Saddam Hussein
Leopoldo Galtieri
