Imentioned the TV movie ‘The Day After’ (earlier) before, the movie that influenced many other fellow Europeans including me. Via Barefoot again, the notice that the movie was shot exactly 20 years ago.
The article as linked above doesn’t only discuss the movie (clips!) but examines how it changed the mindset of the (then) Reagan administration. Says Meyer (the director):
“When he (ed: Reagan) signed the Intermediate Range Weapons Agreement at Reykjavik (in 1986) with Gorbachev, I got a telegram from his administration that said, ‘Don’t think your movie didn’t have any part of this, because it did”