The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

  • Rated 7.7 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 2021
  • 1h 33m
  • Documentary
  • History
  • TV Movie

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; the cars as an instrument in the Cold War battle; legends and homemade tune-ups as an attempt to stand at least a little bit off the crowd.

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Director
Georgi Bogdanov
Starring
Erich Honecker, Todor Zhivkov, Leonid Brezhnev, Ronald Reagan

Cast

  • Erich Honecker

    Erich Honecker

    Self (archive footage)

  • Todor Zhivkov

    Todor Zhivkov

    Self (archive footage)

  • Leonid Brezhnev

    Leonid Brezhnev

    Self (archive footage)

  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan

    Self (archive footage)

  • Petar Klissarov

    Self

  • Kristina Traktirova

    Self

  • John Haugland

    Self

  • Marion Mahlke

    Self

  • Rolf Mahlke

    Self

  • Neven Nevenov

    Self

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