|
|
| COUNTDOWN
TO ZERO |
Year: 2010
USA: Magnolia Pictures
UK: Dogwoof Pictures
Cast: Valerie Plame Wilson, Graham Allison, Rolf
Mowatt-Larssen, Matthew Bunn, Lawrence Scott Sheets, Oleg Khintsagov,
Scott Sagan, Zia Mian, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pervez Musharraf, Mike
Chinoy, Alexander Glaser, Tony Blair, Andrew Koch, Ahmed Rashid, Joe
Cirincione, Jeffrey Lewis, Bruce Blair, Roger Molander, Jimmy
Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ira Helfand, Frank
von Hippel, R Scott Kemp, Robert McNamara, Richard Cizik, F W de
Klerk, Thomas D’Agostino, Richard Burt, James Baker III
Director: Lucy Walker
Country: USA
USA: 91 mins
UK: 89 mins
USA Rated: PG for thematic material, images of destruction
and incidental smoking
UK Certificate: PG contains news footage of terrorist attacks
USA Release Date: 23 July 2010 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 24 June 2011 (Limited Release)
Movie
reviews
Official US
website
Official website
Synopsis
COUNTDOWN TO ZERO traces the history of the atomic bomb from its
origins to the current situation where nine nations possess nuclear
weapons capabilities with others racing to join them, leaving the
world held in a delicate balance that could be shattered by an act
of terrorism, failed diplomacy, or a simple accident.
Written and directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker
(THE DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT), the film features an array
of important international statesmen, including President Jimmy
Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pervez Musharraf and Tony Blair. It makes
a compelling case for worldwide nuclear disarmament, an issue more
topical than ever with the Obama administration working to revive
this goal today.
|
|
|
|
|
