09 Feb 1990
Manuel, le fils emprunté
Juan Alvarez, a Spanish refugee in Canada, shoemaker, picks up at his home Manuel, a 12-year-old Portuguese teenager, whom he teaches to read, to assert his rights and who speaks of the Spanish civil war.
Unrest
In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement ("unrueh") of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers. There she meets Piotr Kropotkin, a moony Russian traveller. The two of them meet at a time when new technologies such as time measurement, photography and the telegraph are transforming the social order and anarchist discourse is addressing emerging nationalism. During a walk in the woods, Josephine and Piotr ask themselves whether time, money and the government are not all but fictions.
Top Billed Cast
Clara Gostynski Josephine Gräbli
Alexei Evstratov Pyotr Kropotkin
Monika Stalder Mireille Paratte
Hélio Thiémard Claire Gysin
Li Tavor Mila Fuchs
Laurence Bretignier Louise Liechti
Laurent Ferrero Gendarme Payard
Mayo Irion Photographer Clément
Nikolai Bosshardt Termineur Künzli
Alisa Miloglyadova Young Russian Woman
Elisaveta Kriman Young Russian Woman
Olga Bushkova Young Russian Woman
Tatiana Kulminska Young Russian Woman
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