The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

Name: The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
Released: 27 Oct 2021
Rating: 7.00
Cast: Erich Honecker, Todor Zhivkov, Leonid Brezhnev, Ronald Reagan, Petar Klissarov

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.

Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
Studio: Agitprop, Endorfilm, Danish Documentary, Saxonia Entertainment, Hulahop Production, MDR, ARTE
Keyword: cold war, soviet union, eastern europe, trabant, collector, nostalgia, automobile industry, communism, car restoration
Cast: Erich Honecker, Todor Zhivkov, Leonid Brezhnev, Ronald Reagan, Petar Klissarov, Kristina Traktirova

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