Movie: Generation Sputnik

Top 10 Billed Cast

Andreas C. Knigge
Andreas C. Knigge

Self - Writer and Journalist

Matthias Horx
Matthias Horx

Self - Futurologist

Andreas Eschbach
Andreas Eschbach

Self - Writer

Pierre Christin
Pierre Christin

Self - Comic Writer

Jean-Claude Mézières
Jean-Claude Mézières

Self - Comic Penciler

Wolfgang Völz
Wolfgang Völz

Self - Actor

Roswitha Völz
Roswitha Völz

Self - Dancer

Oliver Elser
Oliver Elser

Self - Exhibition Curator

Ingrid Wilp
Ingrid Wilp

Self - Charles Wilp's Widow

Walter Jonas
Walter Jonas

Self - Painter (archive footage)

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    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.

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    2016-12-01

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