Unrest
Utterly singular...playful otherworldly tales of watch-making and anarchism in 1870s Switzerland.
-- New York Times
Unrest
Cyril Schäublin’s complexly woven timepiece is set in the hushed environs of the Swiss watchmaking town of Saint-Imier in the 1870s. In this unlikely place, a youthful Pyotr Kropotkin, who would become a noted anarchist and socialist philosopher, experiences a quiet revolution, finding himself inspired by the buzzing activity of the town’s denizens, from the photographers and cartographers surveying its people and land to the growing anarchist collective at the local watermill raising funds for strikes abroad, to the organizing workers at the watch factory, whose craft is depicted with exacting detail and devotion. A film about time, wage labor, and the fiction of nationhood and how these relate to work, leisure, and the processes that shape history.
“[An] intellectually ticklish formally daring delight” —Variety
“[An] intellectually ticklish formally daring delight” —Variety
Genre
Drama,
History
Runtime
93
Language
Swiss German,
Russian,
French,
English
Director
Cyril Schäublin
Writer(s)
Cyril Schäublin
Cast
Clara Gostynski,
Valentin Merz,
Alexei Evstratov
Awards:
Nominee, Encounters Award, Berlin International Film Festival
Nominee, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Prize, San Sebastián International Film Festival
Winner, Encounters Award ~ Best Director, Berlin International Film Festival
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
Jordan Minter, Hollywood Reporter
It’s hard to think of a better title than the one writer-director Cyril Schäublin came up with for his second feature, which chronicles the political fervor swelling beneath the surface of a quiet, picturesque industrial town in late-19th century Switzerland. That town, nestled cozily beside the ...
Played at
Glendale 4.27.23 - 4.27.23
Monica Film Center 5.19.23 - 5.25.23
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