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Eight Hours Don't Make a Day: With Gottfried John, Wolfrid Lier, Anita Bucher, Werner Finck. The young toolmaker Jochen fights with his colleagues to a performance bonus. He gets to know the girl Marion.
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Acht Stunden sind kein Tag ist eine deutsche fünfteilige Fernsehserie von Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Sie wurde vom Westdeutschen Rundfunk produziert und von 1972 bis 1973 ausgestrahlt.
Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (German: Acht Stunden sind kein Tag) (also translated as (Eight Hours Are Not a Day) is a West German television miniseries written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, it was broadcast in five episodes between 1972 and 1973.
No.TitleFirst AiredRuntime (mins.)1"Jochen and Marion""Jochen und Marion"29 October 19721072"Grandma and Gregor""Oma und Gregor"27 December 19721053"Franz and Ernst""Franz und Ernst"21 January 1973974"Harald and Monika""Harald und Monika"18 February 197395Acht Stunden sind kein Tag(Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day) A Family Series. Jochen’s crew – they are tool makers – is under pressure. In 17 weeks, the four devices are supposed to be ready. Although they try very hard, it does not look like they will be able to do it. “You are too slow,” says Foreman Kretzschmer.
Acht Stunden sind kein Tag. Eine Familienserie. Jochens Arbeitsgruppe – sie sind Werkzeugmacher – steht unter Druck. In 17 Wochen sollen die vier Vorrichtungen fertig sein, aber obwohl alle sich Mühe geben, sieht es nicht so aus, als ob sie es schaffen würden. „Ihr seid zu langsam“, sagt Meister Kretzschmer.
Oct 19, 2018 · On October 29, 1972, the first part of Fassbinder’s five-part family series flickered across West German TV screens. Over the next months, the public broadcaster ARD showed all five episodes, in each case on a Saturday evening in the prime-time slot: I. Jochen and Marion, (October 29, 1972), II. Grandma and Gregor (December 17, 1972), III.
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.
