Release Date
Original Release
June 27, 2008
0h 50m
Big Bang in Tunguska (2008)
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.
Director
Christoph Schuch
Department: Directing
Cast
Amartscha
Self
Mark Boslough
Self
Christoph Brenneisen
Self
Valentina Bykova
Self
Luca Gasperini
Self
Leonid Alekseyevich Kulik
Self (archive footage)
Wolfgang Kundt
Self
Juri Lawbin
Self
Giuseppe Longo
Self
Benny Peiser
Self
