Generation Sputnik

Dec 1, 2016

0h 52m

★ 6.5

Overview

From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when American astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the surface of the moon—, the beginnings of the space conquest were depicted in popular culture: cinema, television, comics and literature of the time contain numerous references to an imagined future.

Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

ARTE GEIE

Florianfilm

Generation Sputnik Trailers

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Cast

Self - Writer and Journalist

Andreas C. Knigge

Self - Futurologist

Matthias Horx

Self - Writer

Andreas Eschbach

Self - Comic Writer

Pierre Christin

Self - Comic Penciler

Jean-Claude Mézières

Self - Actor

Wolfgang Völz

Self - Dancer

Roswitha Völz

Self - Exhibition Curator

Oliver Elser

Self - Charles Wilp's Widow

Ingrid Wilp

Self - Painter (archive footage)

Walter Jonas

Self - Artist (archive footage)

Charles Wilp

Self - Astronaut (archive footage)

Buzz Aldrin

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