Unrest

Unrest

2022 · 94 min · ★ 6.5 · Drama, History

New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time and labor, she gets involved with the local anarchist movement.

Directed by Cyril Schäublin · Written by Cyril Schäublin

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