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.

Director: Dirk van den Berg, Pascal Verroust

Cast: Haideh Daragahi, Shahin Nawai, Chahla Chafiq, Chris Niedenthal, Leszek Balcerowicz, Stanisław Ciosek, Alfred Wierzbicki, Hanna Suchocka

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.