The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

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.

Cast

Erich Honecker

Self (archive footage)

Todor Zhivkov

Self (archive footage)

Leonid Brezhnev

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

P

Petar Klissarov

Self

K

Kristina Traktirova

Self

J

John Haugland

Self

M

Marion Mahlke

Self

R

Rolf Mahlke

Self

N

Neven Nevenov

Self

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