Berlinale Talents Project - The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

Logline: 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.
Talent: Georgi Bogdanov
Role of participant: Cinematographer
Director: Boris Missirkov, Georgi Bogdanov
Producer: Martichka Bozhilova
Screenwriter: Boris Missirkov, Georgi Bogdanov
Status: finished
Year of production: 2021
Running time: 94 min
Genre: Documentary (Creative)
Countries of Production: Bulgaria , Germany , Czech Republic , Croatia , Denmark
Production Company: Agitprop Ltd., Danish Documentary Production, Hulahop, Saxonia Entertainment

Festivals and Awards

World premiere: Dok Leipzig 2021, Nomination Audience Award Competition

Festivals: Tallinn Black Nights 2021, CPH: Dox 2022, ZagrebDox 2022
Bulgarian premiere: closing film, Sofia DocuMental 2022

Best DOP Award for a documentary to Missirkov / Bogdanov –
National Festival of Bulgarian Cinema – Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers’ Awards
“Vasil Gendov” 2023

6 nominations at the National Festival of Bulgarian Cinema –
Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers’ Awards “Vasil Gendov” 2023:
Best Director, Best DOP, Best Script, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Documentary

Cinema release in Bulgaria since 28 September 2022