Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (series)
Acht Stunden sind kein Tag- User score: 7.6
- Production country: Germany
- Creator: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Production companies: WDR
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Release date: 10/29/1972
- Release date of last episode: 3/18/1973
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 1 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 5
- Run time: 100 min.
Series description
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.
