The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

17/11/2021 1h 33m 7.0/10

Overview

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.

Director

Georgi Bogdanov

Top Billed Cast

Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Brezhnev

Self (archive footage)

Petar Klissarov

Self

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Todor Zhivkov

Todor Zhivkov

Self (archive footage)

Erich Honecker

Erich Honecker

Self (archive footage)

Kristina Traktirova

Self

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