Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

The sprawling story of 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 family, and his colleagues, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor.

• love at first sight
• factory worker
• cologne, germany
• solidarity
• trade union
• family relationships
• blue collar
• miniseries
• working class
• foosball
• comradeship
• west germany
• new german cinema
• worker's rights
• german culture