Generation Sputnik
Dec 01 2016
•1h 52m
•Documentary, History, TV Movie
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.
Cast
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Andreas C. Knigge
Self - Writer and Journalist
Matthias Horx
Self - Futurologist
Andreas Eschbach
Self - Writer
Pierre Christin
Self - Comic Writer
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