The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

Overview

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.

Directed by Georgi Bogdanov, Boris Missirkov

Top cast

Erich Honecker

Self (archive footage)

Todor Zhivkov

Self (archive footage)

Leonid Brezhnev

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

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Petar Klissarov

Self

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Kristina Traktirova

Self

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John Haugland

Self

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Marion Mahlke

Self

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Rolf Mahlke

Self

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Neven Nevenov

Self

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Tania Petkovska

Self

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Nikita Rogushin

Self

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Roman Savinov

Self

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