Directed by:
Rainer Werner FassbinderScreenplay:
Rainer Werner FassbinderCinematography:
Dietrich LohmannCast:
Gottfried John, Hanna Schygulla, Marquard Bohm, Ulli Lommel, Ruth Drexel, Klaus Löwitsch, Brigitte Mira, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Margit Carstensen, Kurt Raab (more)VOD (1)
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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 several hours, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen (Gottfried John) and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves (Hanna Schygulla), his eccentric nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. Rarely screened since its popular but controversial initial broadcast, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder’s earliest and most tender experiments with the possibilities of melodrama. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Helga Feddersen
German Empire
Best series:
Master Eder and His Pumuckl (1982) (series)
Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Germany
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Line of Separation (2015) (series)
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![Walter Sedlmayr](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/806/160806094_1d7abf.jpg)
Walter Sedlmayr
German Empire
![Heide Simon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/440/160440506_9088dd.jpg)
Heide Simon
Germany
Best series:
We Children from Bahnhof Zoo (2021) (series)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Heinz Meier
Russia
Best series:
Tatort (1970) (series)
A Case for Two (1981) (series)
![Rudolf Lenz](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/272/161272395_b83889.jpg)
Rudolf Lenz
Austria
![Werner Finck](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/789/159789572_ad5a78.jpg)
Werner Finck
German Empire
![Christine Oesterlein](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/384/163384010_45d2cc.jpg)
Christine Oesterlein
German Empire
![Christiane Jansen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/272/161272396_58a31c.jpg)
Christiane Jansen
German Empire
Peter Märthesheimer
German Empire
Gusti Kreissl
German Empire
Best series:
Maya the Bee (1975) (series)
Master Eder and His Pumuckl (1982) (series)
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Hannes Gromball
German Empire
Best series:
Derrick (1974) (series)
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Der Alte (1977) (series)
Wolfried Lier
German Empire
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Derrick (1974) (series)
Wolfgang Schenck
Best series:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Renate Roland](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/167/225/167225513_46ee98.jpg)
Renate Roland
West Germany
Wolfgang Zerlett
German Empire
Best series:
Tatort (1970) (series)
SOKO München (1978) (series)
Wolff's Turf (1992) (series)
Rainer Hauer
Austria