Lulu the Tool

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   .

    Details

    • Release date May 11, 1975
    • Filming locations San Pietro Mosezzo, Novara, Piedmont, Italy
    • Production companies Euro International Films

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    • By Noelia 2022-10-11 23:30:22

      the director said

      "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...

    Movie plot

    Massa, a worker in his early 30s, is enthusiastic about his work and appreciated by his boss. Because of this, he alienates all his colleagues. One day he lost a finger due to a work injury, and everything changed. Except for him, all the workers are united to deal with the boss, his own life is in a state of collapse, his mistress has left him, his wife takes his son away after divorce, and he is in the wrong team, and his false...
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    "La classe operaia va in paradiso" contains many elements of social reality, is a political film with the characteristics of the times, through the image of this "confused worker" Massa, thus reappearing in the 1970s when people fell into the revolution The struggle and resistance of the cruel dilemma between ideal and reality. The whole film continues the theme and creative style of director Elio Petri's " Indagine su un cittadino al...
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    Movie quotes

    • Lulù Massa: If you want my food, take it. I'm not hungry, I've a rift in my stomach.

    • 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...