Generation Sputnik

Story

Synopsis

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.

Directors

André Schäfer, Jonas Niewianda

Writers

Hartmut Kasper

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

1 December 2016

Ensemble

Cast

• Andreas C. Knigge

  Self - Writer and Journalist

• Matthias Horx

  Self - Futurologist

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  Andreas Eschbach

  Self - Writer

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  Pierre Christin

  Self - Comic Writer

• Jean-Claude Mézières

  Self - Comic Penciler

• 

  Wolfgang Völz

  Self - Actor

• Roswitha Völz

  Self - Dancer

• Oliver Elser

  Self - Exhibition Curator

• Ingrid Wilp

  Self - Charles Wilp's Widow

• Walter Jonas

  Self - Painter (archive footage)

• Charles Wilp

  Self - Artist (archive footage)

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  Buzz Aldrin

  Self - Astronaut (archive footage)