Directed by Cyril Schäublin • 2022 • Switzerland
Starring Stefano Knuchel, Valentin Merz, Clara Gostynski

A singularly arresting, precision-crafted tale of time, radical politics, and burgeoning love unfolds amid the bucolic beauty of a Swiss town in this intellectually and stylistically captivating snapshot of a fascinating historical moment. In Saint-Imier in the 1870s, Josephine (Clara Gostynski), a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, the ticking heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time, and labor, she gets involved with the local movement of the anarchist watchmakers, where she meets Russian traveler Pyotr Kropotkin (Alexei Evstratov), whose own political interests become entangled with the struggles of the town’s workers.