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The Working Class Goes to Heaven

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Original title

La classe operaia va in paradisoaka

AKA

Lulu the Tool

Year

1971

Running time

125 min.

Country

Italy

Director

Elio Petri

Screenwriter

Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro

Cast

Music

Ennio Morricone

Cinematography

Luigi Kuveiller

Producer

Eurointer

Genre

Drama | Social Drama. Job/Employment

Synopsis

Lulu is a real hard worker. For this reason he is loved by the masters and hated by his own colleagues. The unions decide agitations against the masters. Lulu doesn't agree till he cuts, by accident, one of his own fingers. Now, after he understood the worker's conditions, he agrees the unions and participates to the strike. He immediately is fired and, not only is abandoned by his lover, but also by the other workers. But the fights of the unions allow him under a new legislation to be hired again. At this point his mind starts giving collapse signs...

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Rankings Position

#100 Best Italian Movies of all time

Awards: 1972: Cannes Film Festival: Palme d´Or (Golden Palm) - Best Movie

1971: David di Donatello Awards: Best Film (ex-aequo) & Special David

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Critics' reviews

"There is little doubt that the director-writer, whose convictions are Communist, has projected a cynical view of the worker's lot that is both fascinating and sobering. (...) delivers the director's avowed "propaganda" forcefully, (...) But, more important, he has fashioned a swiftly moving, human and often disturbing drama."

A.H. Weiler: The New York Times

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