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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.
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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- 1972-10-29
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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 ...
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Mar 13, 2018 · A time capsule that somehow reveals a neglected masterpiece every decade, the back catalog of the prolific German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-82) keeps on giving.
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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.
Jochen's grandmother spends time searching for an apartment they can afford with her new boyfriend Gregor, an elderly gentleman she has picked up in a park.When they run across a library space being abandoned by the town authorities, Oma comes up with the idea of taking it over as a kindergarten for the neighborhood kids who have no place to pla...
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Nov 13, 2018 · Criterion presents Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day as a new 2K digital restoration courtesy of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation. Presented in 1.37:1 with uncompressed monaural soundtrack, picture and sound quality are impressively rendered in this pristine new transfer.
