Six countries, one year, and the world we inherited—1979 was no ordinary trip around the sun.
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.
Editing
Seamless parallel cuts between six collapsing empires.
Direction
Two European directors somehow balanced global perspectives.
Director
Pascal Verroust
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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