• 1979 - Big Bang of the Present

    1979 - Big Bang of the Present



  • 1979 - Big Bang of the Present

    1979 - Big Bang of the Present



  • 1979 - Big Bang of the Present

    1979 - Big Bang of the Present



1979 - Big Bang of the Present

by Pascal Verroust

1979 - Big Bang of the Present

Germany, France | 2019 | 90:00 min

Original Title:
1979 – URKNALL DER GEGENWART

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Current Affairs History Politics

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Documentary
90min or 2x45min French, German, English version available
Synopsis
Our world is defined by the failure of communism, the rise of market economics, and by the power of politicised religion. 1979 was the dramatic year when all these forces came together and gave birth to the world as we know it today. A dynamic, investigative documentary that looks back at the past to explain the present.


From Deng Xiaoping's economic opening of China to Margaret Thatcher’s introduction of liberal market politics, from Ayatollah Khomeini’s return to Iran and Islamic revolution to Pope John Paul II and his summer visit in Poland where he called fellow catholics to resist against communism, from the Second Oil Shock and the nuclear accident at the Harrisburg Three Mile Island power plant to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, from Saddam Hussain's power grab in Iraq to the beginning of nuclear proliferation with India, and from the very first Climate Change report to the first wave of refugees when the Vietnamese Boat People arrived in Europe: within the twelve months of 1979, the world saw the rise of multiple new protagonists who enacted pivotal change of direction in Religion, Economics and Politics.
With their feature documentary film, directors-producers DIRK VAN DEN BERG and PASCAL VERROUST will narrate how the events on 1979 define our lives until today.
The ongoing crises in the Middle East, the expansion of terrorist networks and the never-ending conflict in Afghanistan, but also China’s rapid rise to the rank of a world power, the omnipresent issue of Brexit that might become the biggest threat to an EU struggling to find it's new place in the world – they all have their roots in 1979.
With first-hand witness accounts and never-before-seen archive footage, they will decrypt our globalised world and show how 1979 became THE BIG BANG OF THE PRESENT.
Cast and Crew
  • Director Pascal Verroust
  • Producer Pascal Verroust
World Sales Company
NEW DOCS
Dasselstr. 75-77, 50674 Köln

Phone: +49 221 16819743

sales@newdocs.de
http://www.newdocs.de
Production Company
OutreMer Film GmbH
Güntzelstrasse 41, 10717 Berlin

Mobile: +49 172 4876822

Phone: +49 30 555771010

info@outremerfilm.com
https://www.outremerfilm.com
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