Kropotkin

Overview

In 1887, Peter Kropotkin stayed briefly in the Swiss Jura, fiefdom of the watchmaking industry and epicentre of the international anarchist movement. He would retain a strong impression of his encounter with the highly organised local workers, whose “equalitarian relationships and independent thought” he would praise in his diary. 140 years after the “conversion” of this man who was to theorise libertarian communism a little later on, Cyril Schäublin restages fragments of this diary read in Russian, in the current setting. A place in which his ancestors, who worked from generation to generation in the watchmaking manufactures of this region until their closure, still survive.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 15, 2018

Original language

German

Spoken languages

French, Russian

Countries

Switzerland

Production

Seeland Filmproduktion GmbH

Director

Cyril Schäublin

Producer

Linda Vogel,Cyril Schäublin

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt8376688