Lulu the Tool

Director: Elio Petri

Writer: Elio Petri,Ugo Pirro

Countries of origin: Italy

Language: Italian

Release date: May 11, 1975

Sound mix: Mono

Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1

Also known as: Radnička klasa ide u raj

"La classe operaia va in paradiso" is a 125-minute feature film produced by Euro International Pictures. Directed by Elio Petri and starring Gian Maria Volonté , the film was released in Italy on September 17, 1971.

The film tells the story of Massa, a worker who, after being injured, stood on the wrong team again and was fired by his boss, while his estranged co-workers went on strike to get him back to work, and he finally stood with the co-workers .

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By Noelia 2022-10-11 23:30:22

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"The Working Class Goes to Heaven" was filmed by the famous Italian director Petri in the 1970s when Italian "political films" were in the ascendant. The film covers a wide range of content, from the realities of workers' work and life to the direction of the union struggle, from the radical student movement to the ideological confusion of workers and so on. It can be said that the film clearly reflects the characteristics of the times at that time.
Lu Lu is an ordinary worker. He...

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By Courtney 2023-09-14 15:34:23

Will history repeat...
By Anderson 2023-09-12 19:51:09

Disappointment >...
By Kylee 2023-09-01 17:38:27

It always happens when the working class is still...
By Lukas 2023-08-14 21:16:56

Who else doesn't know my finger is broken? Italians are really...
By Rachelle 2023-07-30 22:49:17

It was the Palme d'Or back then, but today it seems like a mess. The workers are between the oppression of the capitalists and the unrealistic slogans of the students. Not awakening is terrible, and awakening is terrible. The students in the film are hateful, they are not rallying the workers, they are pushing them into the fire pit. They don't create any conditions, they just shout slogans, why should the workers lose their jobs for...

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Lulù Massa: In the factory is annoying, fucking boring, so I work, that's all. This is the idea: life, stripe, goal. All inside the racetrack. Everyone here is running. I'm a little champion. She knows it, right? Then you find the southerns, like him, from east Sicily, they are all outlier, tired since the first morning. So I beat'em on the rate! Once I have earned 25.000 lire of task-work in a month. But running, running... Because I can concentrate myself, I keep my mind busy. I've a method to keep me busy She knows. I just think in a pair of butts. An ass like this. Here, there's nothing to think, what do I have to say? We must work, so do it. With no excuse. Do you understand? Work, with no excuse.
Lulù Massa: I'm gonna speak now. I don't know how to call you: gentlemen, workers, friends, comrades... I'm gonna speak on the mic. The students out there, say that when we enter is dark and when we exit is dark another time. What kind of life is it? This is routing, but since we are here, why don't we do twice task-work, working in Sundays too, we can enter in the night, with our children and our women. The children works there. And our women put the food in our mouth, so we can work twice, keep running and on and on, for some lire more, and live our life here, working till death. And we'll leave this hell to go to another hell...
Lulù Massa: I supported the task-work. Followed the politics of the union. I worked for productivity and I was working, and keeping with the production. And now I transformed myself into a beast, a beast, a real beast! And the students say we are like machines... they say that I'm a machine, a pulley, a screw, a piston rod, a transmission belt, they say that I'm a pump, a broken pump and there's no way to repair that pump. I suggest to stop working right now. All. And who does not stop to work right now is a scab and a fucking asshole!

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