The Cars We Drove into Capitalism (2021)
October 27, 2021
Documentary, History, TV Movie
1h 33m
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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
- Self (archive footage) Erich Honecker
- Self (archive footage) Todor Zhivkov
- Self (archive footage) Leonid Brezhnev
- Self (archive footage) Ronald Reagan
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Keywords
- cold war
- soviet union
- eastern europe
- trabant
- collector
- nostalgia
- automobile industry
- communism
- car restoration