The Man Who Saved the World (2014)

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Stanislav Petrov
Himself

Kevin Costner
Himself

Nataliya Vdovina
Raia

Walter Cronkite
Himself

Robert De Niro
Himself

Matt Damon
Himself

Ashton Kutcher
Himself

Girts Jakovlevs
Col. General Votintsev

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Description: Retired Soviet Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, who saved the world from WW3, talks about his life as retiree and shares his opinions on the Cold War with actor Kevin Costner in this melancholic mixture of documentary and reenacted footage. The 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident was caused when the Soviet Air Defense Forces' early warning system erroneously detected inbound missiles from the United States, when in reality it was a misreading caused by a specific alignment of sunlight on high-altitude clouds. The lieutenant colonel, Stanislav Petrov, recognized the false alarm, which avoided a full scale nuclear war between th ... (more)

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