Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program in 1972-1973. Aspect ratio, 1.37:1. Special features: New 2K digital restoration; "Eight hours don't make a day": A series becomes a Family reunion, a 2017 documentary directed by Julianne Maria Lorenz, featuring interviews with actors. New interview; New English subtitle translation; Plus, an essay by scholar Moira Weigel. Gottfried John, Hanna Schygulla, Luise Ullrich, Werner Finck.
Contents:
Disc 1. Jochen and Marion -- Grandma and Gregor -- Disc 2. Franz and Ernst -- Harald and Monika -- Disc 3. Irmgard and Rolf.
Summary:
Over the course of several hours, 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 nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. The film rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder's earliest and most tender experiments with the possibilities of melodrama.
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