The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

Synopsis

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.

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Key crew

• Boris MissirkovWriter
• Georgi BogdanovWriter
• Georgi BogdanovDirector
• Boris MissirkovDirector
• Dalibor GrubačevićOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Erich HoneckerSelf (archive footage)
• Todor ZhivkovSelf (archive footage)
• Leonid BrezhnevSelf (archive footage)
• Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)
• Petar KlissarovSelf
• Kristina TraktirovaSelf
• John HauglandSelf
• Marion MahlkeSelf
• Rolf MahlkeSelf
• Neven NevenovSelf
• Tania PetkovskaSelf
• Nikita RogushinSelf

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