Lada: Where Soviet cars go to not-quite die

Where Soviet cars go to not quite die – driving adventures in northern Russia. Directed by Dieter Deswarte (). Subscribe to the Aeon Video newsletter: Watch ’Lada’ on Aeon: Watch more free videos on Aeon: Follow us on Twitter: Follow us on Facebook: Follow us on Instagram: The Lada is a stalwart symbol of Soviet Russia. It has also been considered one of the worst cars ever made. Its heyday, if it had one, was in the 1970s, but a substantial number of vehicles remain on the roads today, and hold a special place in the hearts and minds of many Russians. To tell the story of this much-ridiculed car, the filmmaker Dieter Deswarte, the cinematographer Annegret Sachse and the sound engineer Yulia Glukhova travelled the Russian north, from Murmansk to Siberia, to find where the cheap and easily repairable – if reliably unreliable – vehicles are s