“Riots”, Kropotkin and Swiss watches

Filmmaker Cyril Schäublin (Zürich, 1984) is the online nephew of the Mullers, who worked in a watch factory in northwestern Switzerland, not who spent their lives producing piece by piece unrueha German word, he explains, which means the so-called circle of disorder not the mechanical heart of the watch. A task that was mainly carried out by mullers. Back when I was studying at the Berlin Film School, xalle thought about the idea of ​​making a film about this universe and immediately started researching the family memory.

Logo cheugo to read For the state of workers (1951), an essay by anarchist philosopher Simone Weil describing her time as a steel factory worker. “I find it interesting to live in a watch factory and how it configures people’s experience of time,” said Schäublin, who notes that Weil uses cadence as a pressure on workers to perform repetitive tasks according to set time intervals. It is important that “sometimes they do not leave room for their own work rhythm”.

In the third part of the project, two links were discovered between 19th century anarchism and the Swiss watch industry, that is, it led to the autobiographical records of Piotr Kropotkin, who assures us that he became an anarchist after visiting the Swiss watch valley in his anarchist movement. “They knew right away that this should be part of the movie, along with a character inspired by me now, a watch factory worker who causes a series of riots,” I argued to conclude that the movie, set in the 1870s, was to show the origins of anarchism, which is also a love story.

Unrest, awarded at the Berlinale 2022 in the Encounters section, opens this summer in Spanish cinemas by the man from the Galician distributor Lost & Found, created by Víctor Paz in September 2022 with the premise of putting restored films on the market, restoring films and filmmakers, “contributing to writing another history seventh art”. by faith, Unrest offer yourself a double pass with Xente on Sunday (1930), not that Billy Wilder portrays the Berlin of that time in a mixture of documentary and fiction and working with non-professional actors (as in his film Schäublin, who proposed this title to establish a dialogue between both works). Although this double session will not be possible in Galicia, where Schäublin’s film will be seen in Numax (Santiago), Códex (Lugo), Dúplex (Ferrol) and Padre Feijóo Film Club (Ourense).