The Working Class Goes to Heaven

Name: The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Director: Elio Petri
Released: 1971
Cast: Gian Maria Volontè, Salvo Randone, Mariangela Melato, Gino Pernice, Luigi Diberti

La classe operaia va in paradiso

by Elio Petri1h561971Italy

Recommended byAlice Rohrwacher

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Lulu Massa is a highly productive worker at a factory paying piece work but is disliked by his colleagues as his efficiency is used by management to justify their demands for higher output. One day, Lulu loses his finger in a work accident...

Cast and crew

Credits
- Directed by : Elio Petri
- Screenplay : Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
- Décors : Carlo Gervasi
- Costumes : Franco Carretti
- Editor : Ruggero Mastroianni
- Original score : Ennio Morricone
- Sound engineer : Mario Amari
- Producer : Ugo Tucci
- Producing company : Euro International Film
- Chef opérateur : Luigi Kuveiller
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Year of production : 1971
- French release date : 16 mai 1972
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Colors
- Language : italien

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This film is recommended by
- Alice Rohrwacher
This film is part of the Cinematographic movement
"Free Cinema"
See the other films of the movement

The Working Class Goes to Heaven

The film"s page

Credits

Technical details

Other films

By the same director

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

His Days Are Numbered

Property Is No Longer a Theft

From the same year

Walkabout

Two English Girls

McCabe & Mrs Miller

With the same cast

Gian Maria Volontè

Girl with a Suitcase

The Red Circle

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Salvo Randone

Spirits of the Dead

Salvatore Giuliano

Hands Over the City

Mariangela Melato

Swept Away

Luigi Diberti

The Stendhal Syndrome

This film is recommended by

Alice Rohrwacher

This film is part of the Cinematographic movement

"Free Cinema"