The Ugliest Car

The Ugliest Car

2017•47m•6.0/10

DocumentaryComedy

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🎬TMDb

6.0/10(1)

The youngest protagonist of the documentary is Wartburg, an automobile over 50 years of age. The car is still on the road, driven by Bogdan, a 70-year-old who is taking his mother to visit the German factory where she was forced to work during WWII. In this road movie which takes place between Majdanpek and Germany, the trip becomes a journey into the past, retracing memories from the war and revealing a unique relationship between an old son and his elderly mother.

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Telewizja Polska, Anagram

Language

PL

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Released

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