Generation Sputnik (2016)

Documentary · History · TV Movie

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.

Cast

• Andreas C. Knigge as Self - Writer and Journalist
• Matthias Horx as Self - Futurologist
• Andreas Eschbach as Self - Writer
• Pierre Christin as Self - Comic Writer
• Jean-Claude Mézières as Self - Comic Penciler
• Wolfgang Völz as Self - Actor
• Roswitha Völz as Self - Dancer
• Oliver Elser as Self - Exhibition Curator
• Ingrid Wilp as Self - Charles Wilp's Widow
• Walter Jonas as Self - Painter (archive footage)

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