Året var 1963

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.

Cast

Jonas Fohlin

Narrator (voice)

Thommy Berggren

Self

Jerry Williams

Self

Torsten Persson

Self

Stig Wennerström

Self (archive footage)

Valentina Tereshkova

Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

John Lennon

Self (archive footage)

Paul McCartney

Self (archive footage)