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2021

The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

Directed by Georgi Bogdanov

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.

Duration

1h 33m

Released

October 27, 2021

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Cast13

  • Erich Honecker
  • Todor Zhivkov
  • Leonid Brezhnev
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Petar Klissarov
  • Kristina Traktirova
  • John Haugland
  • Marion Mahlke
  • Rolf Mahlke

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