cold war,soviet union,eastern europe,trabant,collector,nostalgia,automobile industry,communism,car restoration

The Cars We Drove into Capitalism (2021)

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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 & Crew

Director
Georgi Bogdanov
  • Profile picture of Erich Honecker
    Self (archive footage) Erich Honecker
  • Profile picture of Todor Zhivkov
    Self (archive footage) Todor Zhivkov
  • Profile picture of Leonid Brezhnev
    Self (archive footage) Leonid Brezhnev
  • Profile picture of Ronald Reagan
    Self (archive footage) Ronald Reagan

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Keywords

  • cold war
  • soviet union
  • eastern europe
  • trabant
  • collector
  • nostalgia
  • automobile industry
  • communism
  • car restoration