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1979: Big Bang of the Present

2019Directed by Pascal Verroust, Dirk van den Berg

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Released: December 10, 2019
Runtime: 1h 29m

About 1979: Big Bang of the Present

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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

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