Acht Stunden sind kein Tag = Eight hours don't make a day / produced by Peter Märthesheimer ; written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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 condit...
| Uniform Title: | Criterion collection ;
946. |
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| Language: | German English |
| Language of the Original: |
German |
| Language and/or Writing System: |
In German; optional subtitles in English. |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
Criterion Collection,
[2018]
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| Edition: | Three-DVD special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
946. |
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| Physical Description: | 3 videodiscs (495 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out leaflet ([12 pages] : illustrations ; 18 cm). |
| Variant Title: |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's
8 Stunden sind kein Tag [Other title]
Eight hours don't make a day [Parallel title]
8 hours don't make a day [Other title] |
| Format: | Video DVD |
| 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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| Note: | Videodisc release of the complete television series originally broadcast in 1972-1973. A digital restoration of the 1972/1973 production of Westdeutscher Rundfunk. "A family series"--Container. Accompanied by a fold-out leaflet featuring an essay, "The Utopia Channel", by scholar Moira Weigel. Special features: new 2K digital restoration by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation; "Eight hours don't make a day : a series becomes a family reunion" (a 2017 documentary directed by Juliane Lorenz); new interview with film scholar Jane Shattuc; new English subtitle translation. |
| Call Number: | PN1995.9.L28 A24 2018 VideoDVD |
| Audience: |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| ISBN: | 9781681435138 1681435136 |
| Credits: | Director of photography, Dietrich Lohmann; editor, Marie Anne Gerhardt ; music, Jean Gepoint [that is, Fuzzy]. |
| System Details: | DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural. |
| Cast: |
Gottfried John, Hanna Schygulla, Luise Ullrich, Werner Finck, Wolfgang Schenk, Irm Hermann, Rolf Waldemar Brem. |