La classe operaia va in paradiso (1971)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Elio Petri

Writers:

Elio Petri (writer)
Ugo Pirro (writer)

Release Date:

17 September 1971 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Lulù is a real hard worker. For this reason he is loved by the masters and hated by his own colleagues...

Plot Keywords:

Worker | 1970s | Italy | Factory | Finger Cut Off

Awards:

5 wins

Cast

Gian Maria Volonté	...	Lulù Massa
Mariangela Melato	...	Lidia
Gino Pernice	...	The syndicalist
Luigi Diberti	...	Bassi
Donato Castellaneta	...	Marx
Giuseppe Fortis	...	Valli
Corrado Solari
Flavio Bucci	...	Operaio
Luigi Uzzo
Giovanni Bignamini
Ezio Marano	...	The timekeeper
Adriano Amidei Migliano	...	The technician
Antonio Mangano
Lorenzo Magnolia
Federico Scrobogna	...	Pinuccio

Also Known As:

Lulu the Tool
The Working Class Goes to Heaven

Runtime:

125 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Novara, Piedmont, Italy

Company:

Euro International Film (EIA)

Movie Connections:

Referenced in La maman et la putain (1973)

man, life and factory as a one absurd condition

The movie has a great power, first of all he gives to Lulu a mechanical soul, the camera follows his unhuman movements caused by too much work and let us understand something strange like madness. Then we have the political part: outside the factory people are pemanently screaming verses against owners like another machine that creates words, but the real impressing moment is inside the factory where man and machine became the same things so that the camera let us see the hidden mechanical part and the human movements togheter; the music too (by Ennio Morricone) adds a sense of robotic condition.