Big Bang in Tunguska (2008)

Documentary · History

Overview

At 7:14 am on 30 June 1908, the largest explosion recorded in human history to date reverberated throughout our planet. The force of the explosion was two thousand times that of the Hiroshima bomb. A woodland area the size of Luxembourg was eradicated in the Siberian taiga. This incident is recorded in history books as the Tunguska catastrophe. To this day, internationally renowned scientists of various disciplines argue about the causes of this disastrous explosion. The documentary discusses the latest and most controversial insights of these leading scientists. It identifies the reasons why Tunguska has evolved into a phenomenon and points out the curious results produced by this mythical event in culture and economy.

Cast

• Amartscha as Self
• Mark Boslough as Self
• Christoph Brenneisen as Self
• Valentina Bykova as Self
• Luca Gasperini as Self
• Leonid Alekseyevich Kulik as Self (archive footage)
• Wolfgang Kundt as Self
• Juri Lawbin as Self
• Giuseppe Longo as Self
• Benny Peiser as Self

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