Lulu the Tool ( La classe operaia va in paradiso ) ( The Working Class Goes to Heaven )

Lulu the Tool (DVD) (*)

$24.99

Original Title: La classe operaia va in paradiso
Alternate Title: The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
David Donatello Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1971 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Elio Petri

Written By:
Elio Petri
Ugo Pirro

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

Synopsis:

The efficient and productive Lulu Massa is an exemplary and beloved worker for his employers and hated by his coworkers. During a period of turbulence in the factory between the union and the radical students against the owners, Lulu accidentally loses one of his fingers. He changes his behavior and joins the movement of the students that wants to stop the factory with a strike as part of the fight of classes while the union wants a partial strike to reclaim benefits to the working class. When Lulu is fired, and gets confused with the new situation. But the union includes his readmission as a subject to be discussed with the owners and Lulu is hired again.

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...

A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. Although the physical handicap is not serious, the accident changes his outlook. When he returns to work he becomes deeply involved in political and revolutionary groups.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 28 April, 2010.

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