Generation Sputnik

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

Self - Writer and Journalist

Matthias Horx

Self - Futurologist

Andreas Eschbach

Self - Writer

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)