Overview

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.

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Cast

Haideh Daragahi

Shahin Nawai

Chahla Chafiq

Chris Niedenthal

Leszek Balcerowicz

Stanisław Ciosek

Alfred Wierzbicki

Hanna Suchocka

Roger Garside

Wei Jingsheng