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La Classe operaia va in paradiso / The Working Class Goes to Heaven / Lulu the Tool -1 |
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Overview
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Director:Elio Petri
Writers:Elio Petri (writer)
Ugo Pirro (writer)
Release Date:17 September 1971 (Italy) more
Awards:5 wins
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Additional Details
Also Known As:Lulu the Tool
Clase obrera va al paraíso, La Argentina / Spain
A Classe Operária Vai ao Paraíso Brazil
Arbeiterklasse geht ins Paradies, Die West Germany
Classe ouvrière va au paradis, La France
Ergatiki taxi paei ston Paradeiso, I Greece
Lulu the Tool (undefined)
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (undefined)
Weg der Arbeiterklasse ins Paradies, Der East Germany
Parents Guide:Add content advisory for parents
Runtime:125 min
Country:Italy
Language:Italian
Color:Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix:Mono
Certification:Argentina:16
Filming Locations:Novara, Piedmont, Italy more
Company:Euro International Film (EIA) more
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Synopsis
Lulù 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. Lulù 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... Written by 1felco (See here)
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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 (See here) |
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Overview
Trivia:
Member of the Italian Communist Party until 1957.
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 11 wins & 5 nominations more
Alternate Names:
Elio Montesti | Petri |
Filmography
- Buone notizie, Le (1979) (screenplay) (story)
... aka Good News
- Propriet?non ?pi?un furto, La (1973) (writer)
... aka Property Is No Longer a Theft (International: English title)
... aka Propri閠? c'est plus le vol, La (France)
- Classe operaia va in paradiso, La (1971) (writer)
... aka Lulu the Tool
... aka The Working Class Goes to Heaven
- Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970) (writer)
... aka Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (UK) (USA)
... aka Investigation of a Citizen... Above Suspicion (USA: poster title)
... aka Investigation of a Private Citizen
- Tranquillo posto di campagna, Un (1969) (screenplay) (story)
... aka A Quiet Place in the Country
... aka Un coin tranquille ?la campagne (France)
- A ciascuno il suo (1967) (writer)
... aka We Still Kill the Old Way (USA)
- Decima vittima, La (1965) (writer)
... aka Dixi鑝e victime, La (France)
... aka The 10th Victim
... aka The Tenth Victim (UK)
- Alta infedelt?/a> (1964) (segment "Peccato nel pomeriggio")
... aka Haute infid閘it?(France)
... aka High Infidelity (USA)
- Mostri, I (1963) (story and screenplay) (as Petri)
... aka 15 from Rome (USA: short version)
... aka Monstres, Les (France: dubbed version)
... aka Opiate '67 (USA: dubbed version)
- Giorni contati, I (1962) (writer)
- Assassino, L' (1961) (screenplay) (story)
... aka Assassin, L' (France)
... aka The Assassin (USA)
... aka The Ladykiller of Rome (USA: dubbed version)
- Impiegato, L' (1960) (writer)
- Carro armato dell'8 settembre, Il (1960) (story)
- Gar鏾nni鑢e, La (1960/I) (writer)
- Gobbo, Il (1960) (story)
... aka Bossu de Rome, Le (France)
... aka The Hunchback of Rome
- Notti dei Teddy Boys, Le (1959) (writer)
- Vlak bez voznog reda (1959) (writer)
... aka Train Without a Timetable (International: English title)
- Ettaro di cielo, Un (1959) (writer)
... aka Piece of the Sky (International: English title)
- Vento del Sud (1959) (story)
... aka South Wind (International: English title: literal title)
- Strada lunga un anno, La (1958) (writer)
... aka Cesta duga godinu dana (Yugoslavia: Serbian title)
... aka The Year Long Road (International: English title)
- Uomini e lupi (1956) (screenplay) (story)
... aka Hommes et loups (France)
... aka Men and Wolves (USA)
... aka The Wolves
- Quando tramonta il sole (1955) (screenplay) (story)
- Giorni d'amore (1954) (story and screenplay)
... aka Days of Love (International: English title)
... aka Jours d'amour (France)
- Donne proibite (1954) (writer)
... aka Angels of Darkness (USA)
- Marito per Anna Zaccheo, Un (1953) (writer)
... aka A Husband for Anna (USA)
- Roma ore 11 (1952) (uncredited)
... aka Onze heures sonnaient (France)
... aka Roma ore undici
... aka Rome 11:00 (USA)
- Sette contadini, I (1949) (screenplay)
- Buone notizie, Le (1979)
... aka Good News
- Mani sporche, Le (1978) (TV)
- Todo modo (1976)
... aka Todo Modo (France)
- Propriet?non ?pi?un furto, La (1973)
... aka Property Is No Longer a Theft (International: English title)
... aka Propri閠? c'est plus le vol, La (France)
- Classe operaia va in paradiso, La (1971)
... aka Lulu the Tool
... aka The Working Class Goes to Heaven
- Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970)
... aka Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (UK) (USA)
... aka Investigation of a Citizen... Above Suspicion (USA: poster title)
... aka Investigation of a Private Citizen
- Tranquillo posto di campagna, Un (1969)
... aka A Quiet Place in the Country
... aka Un coin tranquille ?la campagne (France)
- A ciascuno il suo (1967)
... aka We Still Kill the Old Way (USA)
- Decima vittima, La (1965)
... aka Dixi鑝e victime, La (France)
... aka The 10th Victim
... aka The Tenth Victim (UK)
- Alta infedelt?/a> (1964) (episode "Peccato nel pomeriggio")
... aka Haute infid閘it?(France)
... aka High Infidelity (USA)
- Nudi per vivere (1964) (as Elio Montesti)
- Maestro di Vigevano, Il (1963)
... aka The Teacher from Vigevano (International: English title)
- Giorni contati, I (1962)
- Assassino, L' (1961)
... aka Assassin, L' (France)
... aka The Assassin (USA)
... aka The Ladykiller of Rome (USA: dubbed version)
- Sette contadini, I (1949)
- Giorni d'amore (1954) (first assistant director)
... aka Days of Love (International: English title)
... aka Jours d'amour (France)
- Roma ore 11 (1952) (assistant director)
... aka Onze heures sonnaient (France)
... aka Roma ore undici
... aka Rome 11:00 (USA)
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Elio Petri (January 29, 1929 - November 10, 1982) was a political Italian filmmaker.
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1 Early Life
2 Early Films
3 Director
4 Final Years
5 External links
Early Life
Elio Petri was born in Rome on January 29, 1923 into a modest family, his father being a coppersmith. As the only son, he grew up in the working-class area of the city before attending school where he was noted for his intelligence.
After being expelled for political reasons from San Giuseppe di Merode, a school run by a priest on the Piazza di Spagna, he embarked on a career combining political militancy, film-journalism and the coordination of cultural activities for the youth organization of the Italian Communist Party. He wrote for L'Unità and for Gioventù nuova as well as for Città aperta. He left the party in 1956 after the Hungarian rising.
A friend of Gianni Puccini, he was introduced through him to Giuseppe De Santis and became Assistant to the director of Bitter Rice. He collaborated, without being credited for it, on Rome 11 O'Clock (1952), one of the least known post-war neo-realist movies, based on an actual tragedy; a staircase collapse with dozens of women job seekers who showed up in response to an advertisement by a doctor seeking a secretary.
Early Films
Mr. Petri carried out the preliminary inquiry among the real-life protagonists of the drama. The inquiry was published in book form in 1956. There followed the collaboration with De Santis, both as script-writer and as director's assistant, on La Fille sans homme (1953), Jour d'amour (1955), Homme et luops (1956), La strada lungo un anno (1958) and La Garconniere (1960). During the period, Petri also wrote scripts for Giuliano Puccini, Aglauco Casadio and Carlo Lizzani. Nevertheless, it was his collaboration with the film-director from Fondi which was decisive when it came to learning the tools of the film-directing trade as well as developing an autonomous cultural and political outlook.
Director
All his life, Petri remained deeply attached, both politically and personally, to Beppe De Santis. After two shorts, Nasce un campione (1954) and I sette contadini (1959), which gave him the opportunity to broaden his knowledge of film-making 'on the job' as was the usual course in those days, Petri made his debut as a director with L'assassino (The lady killer of Rome) based on a script co-authored with Tonino Guerra in 1961. Already in this film, Petri's gift for portraying alienated characters, for conjuring up a Kafkaesque thriller mood, is evident.
I giorni contati (1962), his second film, again co-authored with Tonino Guerra sets the pattern: Petri's filmic world is political by allusion and dominated by the themes of exclusion and divided lives. After two somewhat lesser films Il maestro di Vigevano, (1963) and the sketch Sin in the afternoon, included in High Infidelity, 1964, Petri directed The 10th Victim (1965), a film with futuristic overtones also co-authored with Tonino Guerra. In 1967, he shot We still Kill the old Way (adapted from the homonymous novel by Leonardo Sciascia), one of the most poignant of his works dealing with the individual's inability to cope with realty. The film also marked Gian Maria Volonte's entry into Petri's expressive world and the beginning of the collaboration with the script-writer Ugo Pirro which was to last until 1973.
With A quiet place in the country, the last of his film to be co-authored with Guerra, he tackles the subject of solitude and the artist's romantic agony. He then directed four films which showed that he was one of the most acute, lucid and despairing analysts of the schizophrenia of our time. These films constitute, as it were, a portrait of all the facets and contradictions of Italian society: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), the subject of which is the police-force; The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971), on the worker's condition; Property is no longer a theft (1973), about the role of money in our society and how power destroys the individual: Todo Modo (1976), adapted from the homonymous novel by Leonardo Sciascia is about the warped psychic structure of the power moguls among the Christian Democrats. Pointing out as it does all the danger of conformism in politics, culture and communications technology, Petri's work increasingly came up against production obstacles. The ideological violence of Investigation of a citizen above suspicion almost caused the film to be definitely banned.
In 1978, putting aside those topics that were direct reflections on contemporary Italian society, Petri directed for the television a remarkable version of Sartre's play Dirty Hands, in which, once again, Marcello Mastroianni gave an exceptional performance. For the reason of copyright the film has not been released outside Italy.
With Buone Notizie (1979), which Petri himself produced together with Giancarlo Giannini, the main character in the film, Petri reached an impasse: the joint inability of the artist and his character to convey their suffering and dismay.
At a time when sociopolitical and psycoanalytical methods were converging in an attempt to better define the crisis in western societies, Petri tries to interpret the field of the unconscious. More in the line of Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Reich than Karl Marx, he is one of the directors who have done most to renew the political approach to man's problems, to his social insertion. Ranging from neuroses to schizophrenia, Petri's world is one of the most coherent and stimulating where a film-director's commitment to his implicit audiences is involved. The work, however, took its toll on Petri.
Final Years
Like his own characters, he was a constant prey to existential doubts and anguish. The last years of Petri's life were overshadowed by the difficulty he experienced in getting a new film-project under way, and by the onset illness. In 1981, Petri went to Geneva to produce Arthur Miller's new play The American Clock. It was to be his sole incursion into the theatre domain. Work on another film, Chi illumina la grande notte was well advanced: the takes were scheduled for September 1982 and Marcello Mastroianni was to play the leading role. But his illness too was far advanced: Elio Petri died prematurely of cancer on November 10, 1982. He was 53 years old.
External links
Elio Petri web-site
IMDb entry
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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.
The film shared the Grand Prix with The Mattei Affair at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972. Italian actor legend Gian Maria Volonté was the leading actor in both films.(here) |
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| Lulù 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. Lulù 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... Written by 1felco (here) |
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00:06:53 The gate of the factory was opened. Workers go to work. The student organise is conduct propaganda and agitprop |
00:07:13 They said:"ou will be doing piecework...
8 hours of piecework,And you will come out old empty Convinced you have earned yourselves a day-Wage, And instead you will have been robbed! Yes, robbed!" |
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| 00:10:46 An office clerk is checking worker's work |
00:13:03 Massa (Lulu)said to new workers:"Listen to this concept: Life is a winning post, banner everyone on the racing-Track,We're all running here" |
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00:16:01 Massa help the owners to check and revise work ration, the workers abuse him: "a bastard" |
00:17:22 One worker said to him:"Listen Lulu. You're not going to die in bed. You're going to die here. On the machine" |
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| 00:17:58 The workers are controversying with owner |
00:23:00 Massa feels maze, he is complainting with his wife |
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00:25:08 The three united unions call workers to fight |
00:25:49 A worker asks Massa give money for bring-up his son |
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| 00:29:36 Massa happened accident and cutoff a finger of hisself |
00:30:30 Workers angerly Assembly and start strike |
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00:30:46 Massa go to visit his son Armando in the home of his formor wife |
00:31:27 His son not knows the news yet that he has lost finger. Massa is very angry |
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| 00:34:08 Massa goes back his home. His wife Lydia tells to him that 1000 Lire was lost |
00:40:34 Massa visit an eld colleague Militina in a lunatic asylum |
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00:42:29 Massa go to work, he listened a news about Management has suspended 6 workers |
00:43:45 In the voice of call of two organises with different view, Massa fells hesitate and maze |
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| 00:45:01 The director calls everyone sould have team spirit "In which the interests of the workers and capital combined!" |
00:49:04 Massa lost his zeal. An office clerk tell him that he will be fined, he anger and wrangle up |
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00:54:35 The unions are meeting to discuss fight schemes |
00:55:40 various schemes cannot be united, they have to vote by a show of hands |
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| 00:59:06 Massa is talking, he is under the influence of radical student organise to call workers leave the factory soon and back home |
00:59:54 The leader of the unions criticizes His saying |
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01:09:21 The strike started, The workers set the picket-lines front gate of factory and don't allowance anyone pass |
01:10:57 A bus come in and carry some office clerks who want go to work. Massa upthrusts and draw them down, confusion took place in locale |
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| 01:13:22 Someone running come to break to pieces the glass of the car of the director and someone to fire it |
01:13:27 The policemen blow away rambunctious crowd and hit demonstrants |
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01:16:14 Massa back his home, he tell Lydia that some deserter will live in here for a few days for avoid the policemen |
01:16:51 The students are talking politics, Lydia wrangle up with their |
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| 01:18:16 Angering Lydia offwards from the home with her son and carrys a TV |
01:19:26 The students are afraid Lydai inform against them and they hurry away. |
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