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Tight 13-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Kropotkin
2018 0h 13m DE
Synopsis
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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.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Cyril Schäublin
- Languages
- French, Russian
- Countries
- Switzerland
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Cyril Schäublin directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Switzerland. Dialogue in French, Russian.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 13-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 2Released 8 years ago.
- 3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: French, Russian.
- 4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 5IMDB entry: tt8376688 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 13 min · 0h 13m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- DE
- IMDB
- Kropotkin (2018)
Also by
Cyril Schäublin
Production companies
Who made it
- SE
Seeland Filmproduktion GmbH
Key crew
- ProducerCyril Schäublin
- ProducerLinda Vogel
Release history · US
When it landed
- Premiere2018-04-15
