Some of you will recognize this Nativity scene from the movie “Threads” which paints a very bleak future at the hands of nuclear Armageddon. Released at the height of the Cold War in 1984, a year after the US TV movie, “The Day After,” it is a much more frank and horrifying look at the subject by British production by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television, Inc.
We should all thank our forebears on both sides of this tense period who loved us so much that they pulled us back from the brink. They had survived the deprivations of a global depression and at least one world war. They didn’t want us to experience something worse.
On this Christmas, let us all pray for peaceful times.
Amen.
Well said.
I haven’t seen it, but it genuinely horrified seemingly *everyone* who has seen it. Made in 1984, and just as horrifying now as then.
Yea some online critics who have seen it dare would say it could be considered a horror movie as well. Kind of a testament of how well it was done
I`ve seen it at the cinema 1984 in Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man%27s_Letters
is the soviet counterpart…and depressing truthful and with a sober cinematic language!
Absolutly not a propagandamovie.
A must watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw7L55Xn_bo