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The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Italian: La classe operaia va in paradiso), released in the US as Lulu the Tool, is a 1971 Italian satirical [4] political drama 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.
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Gian Maria Volonté (A Fistful of Dollars), stars in one of provocative filmmaker Elio (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) Petri's most politically charged films as factory worker Lulu: a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown, following an accident at work. Too tired to sleep with his girlfriend, cut out of his son’s life by his ex, humil...
Elio Petri’s previously hard to come by The Working Class Goes to Heaven comes to Blu-ray through the new boutique label Radiance Films and is presented on a dual-layer Blu-ray disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation is sourced from a 2K restoration conducted in 2020 and scanned from a 35mm interposi...
The disc presents the film’s single-channel monaural Italian soundtrack in lossless PCM. Though volume levels are mixed well there is a notable flatness to the dialogue, almost certainly due to the dialogue being dubbed over. The soundtrack doesn’t sound to have been overprocessed at least, so it still sounds quite sharp and there is not distortion...
On top of the solid audio/video presentations Radiance has also thrown together a wonderful collection of new and archival supplements, starting it all off with a 6-minute interview with director Elio Petri filmed for French television in 1972. In it the director goes over the story and the character of Lulu (played by Volenté) and talks about how ...
Radiance’s first release delivers a sharp looking presentation and a wealth of supplemental material that work to contextualize the film to its period. A nicely assembled edition. BUY AT:
Jan 2, 2023 · The Working Class Goes to Heaven - Background to a Film Shot in Novara (2006), by Serena Checcucci and Enrico Omodeo Salé; an unconventional making-of documentary, exploring the real-life factory location where the film was shot and the story behind the film’s production there, as told by the staff, film extras and crew
Dec 10, 2022 · Finally the borderline experimental "The Working Class Goes to Heaven – Background to a Film Shot in Novara" (49m38s) from 2006 by Serena Checcucci and Enrico Omodeo Salé profiles the real factory where the film was shot, with a slew of extras, real workers, syndicalists, and other people from the area talking about the battles between the counterculture, the powers that be, and fascists ...
Apr 15, 2008 · The Working Class Goes to Heaven Gian Maria Volonté (A Fistful of Dollars), stars in one of provocative filmmaker Elio (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion) Petri's most politically charged films as factory worker Lulu: a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown, following an accident at work. Too tired to sleep with his girlfriend, cut ...
The Working Class Goes to Heaven: Directed by Elio Petri. With Gian Maria Volontè, Mariangela Melato, Gino Pernice, Luigi Diberti. A conscientious factory worker becomes embroiled in political activism after accidentally cutting off his finger while working a machine.
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Dec 15, 2022 · The Working Class Goes to Heaven – Background to a Film Shot in Novara (2006), by Serena Checcucci and Enrico Omodeo Salé; an unconventional making-of documentary, exploring the real-life factory location where the film was shot and the story behind the film’s production there, as told by the staff, film extras and crew; Trailer
