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Commissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran, dodging expectations by depicting social realities in West Germany from a critical—yet far from cynical—perspective. Over the course of five episodes, 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 family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor.
5 Episodes
as Jochen Epp
as Marion Andreas
as Grandma
as Gregor
as Wolf
as Irmgard Erlkönig
as Harald
as Franz Miltenberger
as Manfred Müller
as Rüdiger
as Rolf Schwein
as Käthe Epp
as Guiseppe Giuliano
as Monika Epp
as Erste Hausfrau
as Mother of Marion
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