COMRADES AND CASH

COMRADES & CASH (2018)

Socialism costs money. If you don’t have it, you need to get it. But that is the thing: Communists don’t like to make money. At least that is what we thought …

A film on the unbelievable ironies and counterintuitive measures taken during the Cold War. Threatened by bankruptcy the GDR lost its ideals and became a receptive student of capitalism in its most elaborate form. It is a story of tunnels underneath the Iron Curtain, of collaboration between East and West. In the end, the Cold War isn’t what it seemed to be.

Documentary for „Deutschland 86“, 80 min

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Max Mönch & Alexander Lahl

IDEA Anna & Jörg Winger

PRODUCTION Amazon / UFA / mobyDOK