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.
Haideh Daragahi
as Self - Literature Professor (1979)
Shahin Nawai
as Self - Biologist (1979)
Chahla Chafiq
as Self - Student (1979)
Chris Niedenthal
as Self - Photojournalist (1979)
Leszek Balcerowicz
as Self - Economist (1979)
Stanisław Ciosek
as Self - Politician (1979)
Alfred Wierzbicki
as Self - Student (1979)
Hanna Suchocka
as Self - Jurist (1979)
Roger Garside
as Self - Diplomat (1979)
Wei Jingsheng
as Self - Political Dissident (1979)
Chas Freeman
as Self - US DoS Official (1979)
Charles Moore
as Self - Political Journalist (1979)
