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emicho was the man who saved the world.
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the man who saved the world









































the man who saved the world is a 2014 feature-length danish documentary film by film maker peter anthony about stanislav petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the soviet air defence forces and his role in preventing the 1983 soviet nuclear false alarm incident from leading to nuclear holocaust.









































the film premiered in october 2014 at the woodstock film festival in woodstock, new york, winning; "honorable mention: audience award winner for best narrative feature" and "honorable mention: james lyons award for best editing of a narrative feature."









































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the man who saved the world
the netherlands versus brazil was the first quarter-final match. the netherlands won 2–1 after recovering from a 1–0 deficit, knocking the five-time world champions brazil out of the tournament. brazil's coach dunga confirmed after the match that he would be leaving the position upon the expiry of his contract, admitting responsibility for brazil's defeat. uruguay and ghana met at soccer city for a place in the semi-final against the netherlands. it was the first time that the teams had ever played each other in a senior competitive football match. after a dramatic 120 minutes of play (including extra time) that finished 1–1, uruguay won in a penalty shoot-out 4–2. uruguay dominated the early periods of the match, but suffered an injury to captain diego lugano in the first half. just before half-time, ghana took the lead when sulley muntari was allowed time on the ball by uruguay, and took advantage by scoring with a shot from 40 yards. after half-time, diego forlán pulled uruguay level with a free kick from the left side of the field that went over the head of ghana's goalkeeper richard kingson. while both teams had chances to win, the match proceeded to extra time as the scores remained level. late in extra time, ghana sent a free kick into the box; luis suárez blocked stephen appiah's shot on the goal line. on the rebound, dominic adiyiah's header was heading into the goal, but suárez blocked the shot with his hands to save what would have been the extra-time winner and he was dismissed. asamoah gyan missed the ensuing penalty kick off the crossbar and suárez celebrated the miss. in the shootout, gyan converted his penalty, as did everybody else until the 4th round of penalty kicks when adiyiah's penalty was saved by uruguayan goalkeeper fernando muslera. uruguay's maxi pereira then hit his penalty kick over the bar. muslera saved captain john mensah's, and ghana's fifth, penalty. sebastián abreu converted uruguay's fifth spot kick by lightly chipping it panenka-style to win the match. after the game, suárez said, "i made the save of the tournament," and, referring to the infamous handball goal scored by diego maradona in the 1986 world cup, claimed that "the 'hand of god' now belongs to me." suárez claimed he had no alternative and was acting out of instinct. forlán agreed that suárez saved the game, "suárez this time, instead of scoring goals, he saved one, i think he saved the game. in other quarter-final germany thrashed argentina 4–0. the 4–0 defeat was argentina's biggest loss at a world cup since 1974. spain defeated paraguay 1–0. the first half of the match finished goalless, although both sides had chances to score and paraguay's nelson valdez had a goal ruled out as offside. the match suddenly became eventful in the second half due to a string of penalty kicks. first, óscar cardozo was pulled down by gerard piqué in spain's penalty area and paraguay was awarded a penalty. cardozo took the penalty himself but it was saved by spain's goalkeeper iker casillas. spain soon after launched an attack at the other end of the field, in which david villa was ruled by the referee to have been brought down by antolín alcaraz. xabi alonso stepped up to take the penalty kick and seemed to have scored, only for the referee to order it be retaken because of encroachment by a spanish player into the penalty area before the kick was taken. xabi alonso's retake was saved by paraguayan goalkeeper justo villar. as a result, the score remained 0–0 after the three penalty kicks. however, spain ultimately managed to take the lead in the 82nd minute: david villa collected a rebounded shot off the post from pedro, to score himself off the post. the goal turned out to be the winner for spain.
south american nations at the fifa world cup