''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
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (; 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the New German Cinema movement.
Fassbinder's main ...
. Commissioned by
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (''West German Broadcasting Cologne''; WDR, ) is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the conso ...
, it was broadcast in five episodes between 1972 and 1973.
The story follows a group of working-class people in
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
,
West Germany
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...
.
Episodes
Cast
;All episodes
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Gottfried John
Gottfried John (; 29 August 1942 – 1 September 2014) was a German stage, screen, and voice actor. A long-time collaborator of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John appeared in nine of the filmmaker's projects between 1975 and 1981, the year befor ...
as Jochen Epp
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Hanna Schygulla
Hanna Schygulla (; born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer associated with the theater and film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She first worked for Fassbinder in 1965 and became an active participant in the New German ...
as Marion Andreas
* Luise Ulrich as Oma Krüger
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Werner Finck
Werner Finck (2 May 1902 – 31 July 1978) was a German ''Kabarett'' comedian, actor and author. Not politically motivated by his own admission but just a "convinced individualist", he became one of Germany's leading cabaret artists under the co ...
as Gregor Mack
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Irm Hermann
Irmgard Hermann (4 October 194226 May 2020) was a German actress. She worked in film, television, and the stage, appearing in over 160 film and television productions. She was discovered, without formal training, by Rainer Werner Fassbinder who c ...
as Irmgard Erlkönig
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Wolfgang Schenck as Franz Miltenberger
* Wolfgang Zerlett as Manfred Müller
* Rudolf Waldemar Brem as Rolf Schwein
* Grigorios Karipidis as Giuseppe Giuliano
* Wolfried Lier as Wolf Epp
* Hans Hirschmüller as Jürgen Graf
* Renate Roland as Monika
* Anita Bucher as Käthe Epp
* Karl Scheydt as Arbeiter Peter
* Rainer Hauer as Werkshallenleiter Volkmar Gross
* Andrea Schober as Sylvia
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Herb Andress
Herb Andress (January 10, 1935, in Bad Goisern – April 8, 2004, in Munich), born Herbert Andreas Greunz, was an Austrian film and television actor, known particularly for his roles in the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film ''Lili Marleen'' (1981) and ...
as Rüdiger
* Thorsten Massinger as Manni Andreas
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Kurt Raab
Kurt Raab (20 July 1941 – 28 June 1988) was a West German stage and film actor, as well as a screenwriter and playwright. Raab is best remembered for his work with German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with whom he collaborated on 31 ...
as Harald (4 episodes)
* El Hedi ben Salem (''uncredited'') as Dunkelhäutiger Arbeiter (4 episodes)
* Ruth Drexel as Frau Miltenberger (3 episodes)
* Christine Oesterlein as Tante Klara (2 episodes)
* Brigitte Mira as Marions Mutter, Frau Andreas (1 episode)
* Peter Gauhe as Ernst Friedrich (1 episode)
* Victor Curland as Meister Fritz Kretzschmer (1 episode)
* Klaus Löwitsch as Dr. Betram (1 episode)
* Rudolf Lenz as Vermieter Mattes (1 episode)
* Hans Gromball as Betrüger (1 episode)
* Valeska Gert as Die andere Oma (1 episode)
* Margit Carstensen as Hausfrau (1 episode)
* Ulli Lommel as Peter (1 episode)
* Eva Mattes as Beschwippste Freundin (1 episode)
* Lilo Pempeit as Hausfrau Müller (1 episode)
* Heinz Meier (actor), Heinz Meier as Beamter Meier (1 episode)
* Ursula Strätz (''uncredited'') as Peters Frau (1 episode)
* Peter Chatel as Mann in der Anzeigenannahme (1 episode)
Restoration
In December 2016, it was announced that the restored version would have its world premiere in the Berlinale Special section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.
In September 2017, Arrow Films released this version in a limited edition dual-format DVD and Blu-ray Box set#Television and film, box set in the UK. The UK release runs at the original speed of 25 Frame rate, frames per second.
In October 2018, The Criterion Collection released it on DVD and Blu-ray in the USA, slowed to 24 frames per second.
References
External links
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''Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: The Utopia Channel''an essay by Moira Weigel at the Criterion Collection
1972 German television series debuts
1973 German television series endings
Television shows set in North Rhine-Westphalia
German-language television shows
Das Erste original programming
Grimme-Preis for fiction winners
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Films scored by Fuzzy (composer)
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