Lulu the Tool (1971)

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125 min - Drama - 17 September 1971 (Italy)

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A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. Although the physical handicap is not serious, the accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Gian Maria Volonté	...	Lulù Massa (as Gian Maria Volonte')
	Mariangela Melato	...	Lidia
	Gino Pernice	...	Sindacalista
	Luigi Diberti	...	Bassi
	Donato Castellaneta	...	Marx
	Giuseppe Fortis	...	Valli
	Corrado Solari
	Flavio Bucci	...	Operaio
	Luigi Uzzo
	Giovanni Bignamini
	Ezio Marano	...	The timekeeper
	Adriano Amidei Migliano	...	The technician
	Antonio Mangano
	Lorenzo Magnolia
	Federico Scrobogna	...	Pinuccio

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Storyline

Lulù is a real hard worker. For this reason he is loved by the masters and hated by his own colleagues. The unions decide agitations against the masters. Lulù doesn't agree till he cuts, by accident, one of his own fingers. Now, after he understood the worker's conditions, he agrees the unions and participates to the strike. He immediately is fired and, not only is abandoned by his lover, but also by the other workers. But the fights of the unions allow him under a new legislation to be hired again. At this point his mind starts giving collapse signs... Written by 1felco

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Drama

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Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

17 September 1971 (Italy) See more »

Also Known As:

La clase obrera va al paraíso See more »

Filming Locations:

Novara, Piedmont, Italy See more »

Box Office

Gross:

ITL 1,348,900,000 (Italy) (1972)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Euro International Film (EIA) See more »

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

125 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

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Trivia

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 announcing the end titles. See more »

Connections

Referenced in The Mother and the Whore (1973) See more »