Watch Unrest, a Swiss film about anarchist watchmakers in the Jura Mountains a few years after the Paris Commune (late 1800s). Pyotr Kropotkin is one of the characters. You might expect this to be a gripping tale of factory/worker conflict but it was mostly a slice-of-life film depicting interesting things about the time period. It's the dawn of universal timekeeping and the town uses four separate timekeeping systems clashing to be the standard. Photography is new and people buy & trade portraits of random people like they're pokemon cards. The Anarchist newspapers are widely read because they have such a developed telegram network that they can publish articles about happenings all over the world. A local election happens with very specific rules about who can vote. Basically it's a slow film (read: almost everybody will find it boring) where not much happens and the characters never express any emotion but you can enmesh yourself in the world a bit. Enjoyed it for what it was.
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@ahelwer I love this film and how quiet and detailed it is. If you haven't heard it, I thought the "Everyday Anarchism" interview with the filmmaker was really interesting. https://www.everydayanarchism.com/unrest-a-film-about-the-young-kropotkin-cyril-schaublin/
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