The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

• 7.0 Documentary
• 2021-10-27
• 93 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Erich Honecker (Self (archive footage)) Todor Zhivkov (Self (archive footage)) Leonid Brezhnev (Self (archive footage)) Ronald Reagan (Self (archive footage)) Petar Klissarov (Self) Kristina Traktirova (Self) John Haugland (Self) Marion Mahlke (Self) Rolf Mahlke (Self) Neven Nevenov (Self)

Director:

Georgi Bogdanov Boris Missirkov

Writer:

Boris Missirkov Georgi Bogdanov