The Cars We Drove into Capitalism (2021)
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.
Cast
Erich Honecker
Self (archive footage)
Todor Zhivkov
Self (archive footage)
Leonid Brezhnev
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
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