Rent Eight Hours are Not a Day (1973)
4.2 of 5 from 51 ratings
7h 58min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder had been making feature films for three years - and already amassed a filmography that would satisfy most careers - when he decided to take on a bigger challenge. Teaming up with West German television channel WDR, he conceived of 'Eight Hours Don't Make a Day', a series that would extend to five feature-length episodes to be broadcast at monthly intervals. Centring on the Kriiger family, as well as their lovers, in-laws, friends and co-workers, the series takes a sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic look at domestic relationships and labour relationships, with particular focus on skilled worker Jochen (Gottfried John) and his new girlfriend, Marion (Hanna Schygulla). Reminiscent of working-class soap operas such as 'Coronation Street' and the family-based sitcoms of Carla Lane, 'Eight Hours Don't Make a Day' has been one of the more difficult to find entries of Fassbinder's extraordinarily prolific output. - Actors:
- Gottfried John, Hanna Schygulla, Luise Ullrich, Werner Finck, Wolfgang Schenck, Wolfgang Zerlett, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Grigorios Karipidis, Wolfried Lier, Hans Hirschmüller, Renate Roland, Anita Bucher, Karl Scheydt, Rainer Hauer, Andrea Schober, Herb Andress, Thorsten Massinger, Irm Hermann, Kurt Raab, Ruth Drexel
- Directors:
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Producers:
- Peter Märthesheimer
- Writers:
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Aka:
- Acht Stunden sind kein Tag
- Studio:
- Arrow Films
- Genres:
- TV Classics, TV Dramas, TV Soaps
- Collections:
- The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Countries:
- Germany
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 25/09/2017
- Run Time:
- 478 minutes
- Languages:
- German Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Fassbinder, a feature-length 2015 documentary on the director featuring interviews with Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Schlondorff and others
- Eight Hours Don't Make a Day: A Family Series Becomes a Family Occasion, a brand-new retrospective featurette featuring interviews with Schygulla, Hermann, Wolfgang Schenck, Hans Hirschmiiller and others, and directed by Juliane Lorenz, head of the Fassbinder Foundation
- An appreciation by critic Tony Rayns, recorded exclusively for this release
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes the following episodes:
1. Jochen and Marion
2. Grandma and Gregor - Disc 2:
- This disc includes the following episodes:
3. Franz and Ernst
4. Harald and Monika - Disc 3:
- This disc includes the following episode:
5. Irmgard and Rolf
- Special Features
