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Comrades & Cash: How Money Found Its Way Through the Iron Curtain

Original title: Comrades & Cash: Geheime Geschäfte unter dem Eisernen Vorhang
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 19m
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Comrades & Cash: How Money Found Its Way Through the Iron Curtain (2018)
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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 iron... Read allSocialism 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 ... Read allSocialism 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 for... Read all

  • Directors
    • Alexander Lahl
    • Max Mönch
  • Writers
    • Alexander Lahl
    • Max Mönch
    • Anna Winger
  • Stars
    • Jonas Nay
    • Hennie Jansen Van Vuuren
    • Ronnie Kasrils
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    • Directors
      • Alexander Lahl
      • Max Mönch
    • Writers
      • Alexander Lahl
      • Max Mönch
      • Anna Winger
    • Stars
      • Jonas Nay
      • Hennie Jansen Van Vuuren
      • Ronnie Kasrils
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    Georges Starckmann
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    Stefan Wolle
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    Markus Gnädinger
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    Werner Dralle
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    Mats Natt och Dag
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    Christoph Andersson
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    Gabriele Stötzer
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    Erich Honecker
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    Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski
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      • Alexander Lahl
      • Max Mönch
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      • Alexander Lahl
      • Max Mönch
      • Anna Winger
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      The "Comrades & Cash" - journey begins in South Africa, involves Angola, travels further north to Paris, before entering the both the DDR and the BRD, and takes a turn to Sweden, before the the foundation of the wall trembles.

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      • October 19, 2018 (Germany)
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      1 hour 19 minutes

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