The Working Class Goes to Heaven

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La classe operaia va in paradiso
original movie poster
Directed by	Elio Petri
Produced by	Ugo Tucci
Written by	Ugo Pirro Elio Petri
Starring	Gian Maria Volontè Mariangela Melato Gino Pernice
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Cinematography	Luigi Kuveiller
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release dates	17 September 1971 (Italy) 11 May 1975 (New York City only)
Running time	125 min
Country	Italy

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Italian: La classe operaia va in paradiso) is a 1971 film directed by Elio Petri. It depicts a factory worker's realisation of his own condition as a simple "tool" in the process of production and, implicitly, his struggle with the trade unions. The worker in question, Lulu, is described in the first part of the film as a Stakhanovite.

Plot

Lulu Massa is a reliable and dedicated factory worker but then he loses a finger due to a work accident. He lets himself get agitated by communistic students and becomes an agitator himself. His employer fires him for supporting those students but they refuse to acknowledge responsibility. The trade union, although having resented his previous aggressivity, achieves to get him back into his old job. At night Lulu has a dream where he breaks through a wall and there's nothing behind it.

Cast

Gian Maria Volontè - 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

Accolades

The film shared the Grand Prix with The Mattei Affair (with also Gian Maria Volontè as leading actor) at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: The Working Class Goes to Heaven". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-13.

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Palme d'Or winning films

Union Pacific (1939)
Iris and the Lieutenant (1946)
The Lost Weekend (1946)
The Red Meadows (1946)
Brief Encounter (1946)
María Candelaria (1946)
Neecha Nagar (1946)
The Turning Point (1946)
La Symphonie Pastorale (1946)
The Last Chance (1946)
Men Without Wings (1946)
Rome, Open City (1946)
The Third Man (1949)
Miss Julie (1951)
Miracle in Milan (1951)
The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952)
Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Gate of Hell (1954)
Marty (1955)
The Silent World (1956)
Friendly Persuasion (1957)
The Cranes Are Flying (1958)
Black Orpheus (1959)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
The Long Absence (1961)
Viridiana (1961)
O Pagador de Promessas (1962)
The Leopard (1963)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965)
A Man and a Woman (1966)
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
Blowup (1967)
if.... (1969)
MASH (1970)
The Go-Between (1971)
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1972)
The Mattei Affair (1972)
The Hireling (1973)
Scarecrow (1973)
The Conversation (1974)
Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Padre Padrone (1977)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Tin Drum (1979)
All That Jazz (1980)
Kagemusha (1980)
Man of Iron (1981)
Missing (1982)
Yol (1982)
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Paris, Texas (1984)
When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
The Mission (1986)
Under the Sun of Satan (1987)
Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Best Intentions (1992)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
The Piano (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Underground (1995)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
The Eel (1997)
Eternity and a Day (1998)
Rosetta (1999)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
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Elephant (2003)
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Films directed by Elio Petri

The Assassin (1961) His Days Are Numbered (1962) The Teacher from Vigevano (1963) High Infidelity (1964) The 10th Victim (1965) We Still Kill the Old Way (1967) A Quiet Place in the Country (1968) Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973) Todo modo (1976) Good News (1979)

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