Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Job Film Days, together with the Turin National Cinema Museum, pay tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder with the screening of one of his movies for television, Otto ore non sono un giorno .

Fassbinder (1945-1982) made this movie during the peak of his creative career at the beginning of the 70s. A five-episode film, produced by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, that was airing between 1972 and 1973 making the history of German television. Fassbinder?s aim to give another interpretation to a popular genre like episode-films was a great success audience-wise, but the broadcaster that once had hired Fassbinder, stopped the production and the project (it should have been an eight-episode movie) was abandoned unfinished.

Forgotten for decades, the five episodes were then made available after the restoration by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation in collaboration with the NY Museum of Modern Art. This version of the movie premiered at the 2017 Berlin Festival.  This is the restoration of one of the most creative films of the brilliant German director. It was the first movie shown in episodes having the main characters as workers. But it was also the first about the world of the factory, programme-wise completely different from all the political documentaries while being at the same time the outcome of years of research in factories and discussions with the labourers. A movie in which all poetry, creativity, impulse of bodies, that are themes of the author?s enormous filmography, continue meaning something to the audience even forty years after Fassbinder’s death at 37 years old. 

Job Film Days presents the regional premiere of the first two episodes of the movie: the remaining three episodes will be shown at Cinema Massimo on Monday October 7 at 9pm and on Tuesday October 8 at 4pm and 6pm.