(From Eastman.org):

"Unrest, the balance wheel of a mechanical timepiece as well as political action, is the apt title for this film’s connection of anarchism and watchmaking in late 19^th-century Switzerland. It dramatizes young Pyotr Kropotkin’s 1872 visit to Saint-Imier, the center of Swiss watchmaking and site of the anti-authoritarian congress of anarchists—a visit he credits to his full turn to anarchism. While the small factory owners apply crude time and motion tests at the assumed Longines watch company, the recent rise of the telegraph, trains and photography enable the workers to connect with and support anarchists around the world. Shäublin’s own grandmother and great aunts set unrest wheels in this region."

"A joint effort between the Dryden Theatre and the Rochester Labor Council, the Labor Film Series presents motion pictures celebrating workers of the world. The first film program of its kind in the United States, the series includes dramas, comedies, and current documentaries on important issues relating to work and workers, especially aspects of work often marginalized or absent in dominant commercial media. Our films from around the globe are selected to inform, provoke, and inspire."