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Året var 1963

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5.0·2013·1h 0m

1963 - the year when the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. Sweden suffers from an smallpox epidemic - hundreds o...

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Cast

Jonas Fohlin

Jonas Fohlin

Narrator (voice)

Thommy Berggren

Thommy Berggren

Self

Jerry Williams

Jerry Williams

Self

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Torsten Persson

Self

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Stig Wennerström

Self (archive footage)

Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Tereshkova

Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

DIRECTORS

Jonas Fohlin, Olle Häger, Kjell Tunegård

OVERVIEW

1963 - the year when the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. Sweden suffers from an smallpox epidemic - hundreds of thousands are vaccinated, and several thousand are isolated. Colonel Stig Wennerström is arrested for spying for the Soviets. John F Kennedy is murdered in Dallas, while Martin Luther King has a dream about the future, "Villervalle i Söderhavet" is shown on Swedish TV.