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A Family Series - Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
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Title: Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

Release Date: 29 Oct 1972

Runtime: 1h 40m

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Production Companies: WDR

Overview: Commissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran, dodging expectations by depicting social realities in West Germany from a critical—yet far from cynical—perspective. Over the course of five episodes, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.6 (18 votes)

Cast

  • Jochen Epp: Gottfried John
  • Marion Andreas: Hanna Schygulla
  • Grandma: Luise Ullrich
  • Gregor: Werner Finck
  • Wolf: Wolfried Lier
  • Irmgard Erlkönig: Irm Hermann
  • Harald: Kurt Raab
  • Franz Miltenberger: Wolfgang Schenck
  • Manfred Müller: Wolfgang Zerlett
  • Rüdiger: Herb Andress
  • Rolf Schwein: Rudolf Waldemar Brem
  • Käthe Epp: Anita Bucher
  • Guiseppe Giuliano: Grigorios Karipidis
  • Monika Epp: Renate Roland
  • Erste Hausfrau: Margit Carstensen
  • Mother of Marion: Brigitte Mira
  • Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (Season 1)

    The young toolmaker Jochen fights with his colleagues to a performance bonus. He gets to know the girl Marion. For both, it is love at first sight.

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