La classe ouvrière va au paradis

Original title: La classe operaia va in paradiso

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A conscientious factory worker becomes embroiled in political activism after accidentally cutting off his finger while working a machine.A conscientious factory worker becomes embroiled in political activism after accidentally cutting off his finger while working a machine.A conscientious factory worker becomes embroiled in political activism after accidentally cutting off his finger while working a machine.

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7.6/10

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Awards
- 7 wins & 4 nominations total

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Elio Petri's "La classe operaia va in paradiso" shows a very subtle cameo of Ennio Morricone, who also composed the original score of this film, awarded with a Palme d'or in the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. The Italian Maestro appears in close-up for almost one minute as the anonymous--and obviously uncredited--blue-collar who actions the cart, with both hands up and down, at the end of the assembly line in the factory. His repeated gesture immediately activates the "mechanical" music that announces the end titles.

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

Connections
Featured in Italian Gangsters (2015)

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10/10

This prizewinning movie should be reissued. Contains lessons for today's organizers that should be heeded.

Young radicals come in to organize a factory, which the company resists. The company stooge, Lulu is an older, super-competent machinist, the person whose production sets the company's impossible standard for the rest of the workers. He gets so upset and distracted as a result of the alienation of his peers, he cuts a finger off. The company abandons him as he recuperates, and he joins the struggle of the workers and the radicals who've come to organize them. The student and radical activists eventually get distracted by a new campaign, abandoning the workers in the battle they helped organize. It should be shown to all community organizers to help create respect for those on whom they depend for support of progressive initiatives.