Caught in the Mist
Director Joseph Matthews
Countries United Kingdom
Duration 25 min
Synopsis
Filmmaker Joseph Matthews travels to Moscow and discovers divided memories of a Communist past. The characters he encounters on the journey reflect on an era of collective struggle and illegal Elton John records. His own grandparent’s Communist ideals in post-war Glasgow frame this personal journey to find out how it was for ordinary workers in the Russian Communist system and how that compares to now.
Filmmaker Joseph Matthews travels to Moscow and discovers divided memories of a Communist past. The characters he encounters on the journey reflect on an era of collective struggle and illegal Elton John records. His own grandparent’s Communist ideals in post-war Glasgow frame this personal journey to find out how it was for ordinary workers in the Russian Communist system and how that compares to now.