The Cars We Drove into Capitalism (2021)

10/27/2021 (DE) • 1h 33m

Documentary, History, TV Movie

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.

Top Billed 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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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

cold war

soviet union

eastern europe

trabant

collector

nostalgia

automobile industry

communism

car restoration

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