Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
A Family Series
Air Date: 10/29/1972
Imdb: tt0068028
Popularity: 8.292
Vote: 7.6/10 (18)
Last Aired: 3/18/1973 12:00:00AM
Next Aired:
Status: Ended
Seasons: 1 - Info
Networks: WDR Fernsehen

Overview: 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.