The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

1h 33min

Documentary

History

TV Movie

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.

Production Companies

Agitprop

Endorfilm

Danish Documentary

Saxonia Entertainment

Hulahop

MDR

ARTE

Cast

Erich Honecker

Erich Honecker

Self (archive footage)
Todor Zhivkov

Todor Zhivkov

Self (archive footage)
Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Brezhnev

Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

Release date

27th Oct 2021

Status

Released

Spoken languages

български език, Český, English, Deutsch, Pусский