By Car, Comrade!

What happens when the Cold War impacts the automobile industry in Eastern Europe? Carmakers of the region were as creative & competitive as those in the West. They made an incredible number of vehicles, stories of which are still unknown. But they were also subject to other constraints, mixing politics, planned economy and sometimes concern for prestige... This documentary will take us through amazing stories, from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall.