Eight Hours Don't Make a Day: Episode 1

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1972 / 107min / DCP

Fassbinder’s grand Marxist melodrama of ordinary working-class family life in Cologne, West Germany, begins with what is possibly the most positive depiction of romantic love in the filmmaker’s oeuvre, the tender coupling of tool factory employee Jochen (Gottfried John) and Marion (Hanna Schygulla), a young woman working in the advertising department of a local newspaper, who inspires Jochen to start organizing at his workplace.