Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972)
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.
Erste Hausfrau
Vermieterin
Jochen Epp
Dr.Bertram
Mother of Marion
Rüdiger
Irmgard Erlkönig
Standesbamter
Freundin
Vermieter Mattes
Harald
Hausfrau
Marion Andreas
Grandma
Gregor
Wolf
Franz' Frau
Franz Miltenberger
Rolf Schwein
Oma
Peter
Witwer
Monika Epp
