Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
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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Anita Bucher
as Käthe Epp
Gottfried John
as Jochen Epp
Wolfrid Lier
as Wolf Epp
Werner Finck
as Gregor Mack
Irm Hermann
as Irmgard Erlkönig
Hanna Schygulla
as Marion Andreas
Wolfgang Zerlett
as Manfred Müller
Wolfgang Schenck
as Franz Miltenberger
Rudolf Waldemar Brem
as Rolf Schwein
Grigorios Karipidis
as Guiseppe Giuliano
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