Boris Missirkov

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.

The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters.

While a woman makes an omelette, we learn how difficult it is to make ends meet. 7-minute short film which won honorable mention at Sundance 2009. Created at the invitation of Capital Weekly as part of the first BC omnibus film '15' - 15 authors, 15 years, 15 short films.

Symbols of a bygone era, the cars produced by the state-owned factories of the Eastern Bloc are now highly prized by collectors. In the former German Democratic Republic, as in the other Eastern Bloc countries, the individual car was a grail, an almost unattainable commodity.

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.

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.

The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters.

The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters.

While a woman makes an omelette, we learn how difficult it is to make ends meet. 7-minute short film which won honorable mention at Sundance 2009. Created at the invitation of Capital Weekly as part of the first BC omnibus film '15' - 15 authors, 15 years, 15 short films.

Symbols of a bygone era, the cars produced by the state-owned factories of the Eastern Bloc are now highly prized by collectors. In the former German Democratic Republic, as in the other Eastern Bloc countries, the individual car was a grail, an almost unattainable commodity.

Symbols of a bygone era, the cars produced by the state-owned factories of the Eastern Bloc are now highly prized by collectors. In the former German Democratic Republic, as in the other Eastern Bloc countries, the individual car was a grail, an almost unattainable commodity.