The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
Directed by Georgi Bogdanov, Boris Missirkov
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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.Read moreLess
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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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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Erich HoneckerSelf (archive footage)
Todor ZhivkovSelf (archive footage)
Leonid BrezhnevSelf (archive footage)
Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)Explore the crew
- Writer
- Georgi Bogdanov
- Editor
- Emil Granicharov
- Editor
- Georgi Tenev
- Writer
- Boris Missirkov
- Producer
- Martichka Bozhilova
- Editor
- Jacob Thuesen
- Director
- Georgi Bogdanov
- Director
- Boris Missirkov
- Original Music Composer
- Dalibor Grubačević