The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
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.
- Year: 2021
- Country: Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Czech Republic
- 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
- Director: Georgi Bogdanov, Boris Missirkov
- Cast: Erich Honecker, Todor Zhivkov, Leonid Brezhnev, Ronald Reagan, Petar Klissarov, Kristina Traktirova