The working class path to paradise

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Movie
German title The working class path to paradise
Original title La classe operaia va in Paradiso
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1971
length 120 minutes
Rod
Director Elio Petri
script Elio Petri
Ugo Pirro
production Ugo Tucci
music Ennio Morricone
camera Luigi Kuveiller
cut Ruggero Mastroianni
occupation

The way of the working class to paradise (original title: La classe oparaia va in Paradiso ) is an Italian political film by director Elio Petri from 1971 with Gian Maria Volonté in the leading role. The alternate title is The Working Class Goes To Paradise .

action

In 16 years Lulù Massa (Gian Maria Volontè) has become a role model for effective working methods, which is why he is not very popular with his colleagues. His family life and health also suffer from his constant hunt for ever higher production numbers. When parts of the workforce begin to strike, Massa is resistant to their arguments. While students are constantly shouting their slogans for better working conditions and higher salaries through megaphones, he goes to his workplace stubbornly as always.

But when he loses a finger due to his permanent fatigue, his posture changes radically. He joins the strikers and becomes their spokesman. Euphoric about his new position, he has spontaneous sex with a colleague and takes the students home to his apartment. When his wife, who had already left him, wants to return there, she finally fled. But also the students, fearing that his wife might go to the police, leave Lulù Massa's apartment again. In the meantime, an agreement had been reached between the company management and the strikers, so that work was resumed in a regulated manner. Only Lulù Massa was dismissed as a strike leader , which is why he is without a wife or work. Even the students, whose ideological arguments he does not understand, no longer want anything to do with him.

In view of this development, Massa is maddened, which is why he no longer really notices that his wife is returning to him, nor that he is getting back to work after his colleagues had stood up for him. He can only go about his work as he used to - with slightly improved working conditions.

criticism

"A film that inspires discussion because it questions both sides critically, and with its pathos and the nervous rhythm of the staging has an unusual effect," noted the lexicon of international films .

background

The way of the working class to paradise is the second part of the “Neurotic Trilogy” ( Trilogia della nevrosi ), to which investigations against a citizen above suspicion ( Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto ) from 1970 and La proprietà non è più un furto from 1973 belong - the films each stand for the terms work, power and money.

Awards

Cannes International Film Festival 1972

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 1972

David di Donatello 1972

  • David won for best film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The Way of the Working Class to Paradise. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used