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STALIN'S COLA Germany-Bulgaria, 2025, 92 min, color, documentary

Stalin’s Cola tells the story of a mysterious soda developed by legendary Georgian juicemaker Mitrofan Lagidze on the order of Stalin in the early 1950's. In the so-called lemonade war Lagidze was supposed to create a soft drink better than Coca-Cola. With a typical Georgian sense of humor this film sets out on a quest for the formula of the Soviet super-soda. Based on real incidents, this film reveals how major events in world history might have been influenced by the tasty creations of a juice genius from Tbilisi.

 

An unbelievable story which opens viewers' eyes on real life, hopes and dreams in the Soviet Union. A film that raises the question of how the world would look today if the most popular soft drink had not been mixed in Georgia, USA, but in Georgia, USSR.

Stefan Tolz

Stefan Tolz

Stefan Tolz was born in 1966. He studied from 1986-1993 at the Academy of Television & Film Munich and at the Cinema Faculty of the Georgian State Theater Institute in Tbilisi and was a guest student at New York University and the Beijing Film Academy. From 1993-1999, he worked as a freelance writer, director and producer in Cologne for various television series. Since 1998, he has had teaching appointments in the fields of Documentary Film and Television Publicity in Germany and Austria.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

1989 The power lies elsewhere / doc.

2007 Traders' Dreams / doc., co-dir.

2025 Stalin’s Cola / doc.

DIRECTOR
Stefan Tolz
SCRIPT
Stefan Tolz
CAMERA
Thomas Riedelsheimer, Nik Voigt, Martin Dimitrov, Sandro Japaridze, Alexey Pluschev, Nikita Aniskin, Roman Gatcan
PRODUCERS
Stefan Tolz, Martichka Bozhilova
PRODUCTION
Filmpunkt, AGITPROP

STALIN'S COLA Germany-Bulgaria, 2025, 92 min, color, documentary

PROGRAM

Odeon Cinema
20:00 h

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