The Berlinale Special section a jewel: turn in the television series 1972 as Rainer Werner Fassbinder in versione restaurata e rimasterizzata Eight Hours Day
(from Berlin Marina fearful – Photos are published courtesy of the Berlinale)
Five episodes for many stories within an average middle class family in Cologne. Grandmother, amiable and brill
Ms. ante (Luise Ullrich), It celebrates sixty years. To celebrate we are all: two daughters, the husband of one of them and the grandchildren. Jochen (Gottfried John), one of the boys, after meeting by chance, near a vending machine, the beautiful Marion (Hanna Schygulla), He asks the girl at the party at his house. And here, Finally, starting presentations. Da questo momento in poi – senza eufemismo alcuno – iniziamo noi stessi a far parte della famiglia a tutti gli effetti ed a voler letteralmente bene ad ogni singolo personaggio. Because from the first frame has the advantage of 
transmit that joy, the joy of fund that will be a major feature of the whole series. On background, Furthermore, the workers' struggle, one of the main themes of the film director bavarese.In this world peaceful and a bit 'naive, in fact, what is missing - thinking, just, much of the production of Fassbinder - is precisely that of pessimism, that kind of mal de vivre that will bring the filmmaker in a few years to take his life. And it is the tone of the TV series that has raised in his time - in 1972 - Critical nonpoche, especially as it regards the subplot on workers' movements, considered, time, as represented in an almost unreal and a little 'too simplistic. To the point of pushing Fassbinder himself to stop at the fifth episode. and yet, thinking of the most exciting scenes of the whole series, we can not fail to mention one set just inside the factory where he works Jochen, when the workers decide to sign a paper in which they ask their leader to award him certain fundamental rights: no mounting detachment, single roundup in plongé which symbolizes, just, the strong bond between the workers and, finally, the smiling faces of the whole group. The message we wanted to communicate Fassbinder arrived, so, undoubtedly loud and clear. Come, however, It has always been in all its produzioni.Certo, to think that initially there had been the idea of shooting more than five episodes, a bit 'of anger is all right. If only for the fact that you will never tire of this sort of 
fable out of the world. As you will never tire of listening and listen the little song on the opening and closing theme song of every single episode, When, with the background factory, we see a timid sun rise slowly over the city of Cologne, where Jochen stories, Marion, Monika, Manfred, Gregor and the legendary Oma, grandmother, are to entertain us for another hour and a half that, like every time, It will seem to last just a few tens of minutes.