La classe operaia va in paradiso (The Working Class Goes to Heaven) 1971 M
Production still from The Working Class Goes to Heaven 1971 / Director: Elio Petri / Image courtesy: Movietime SRL / View full image
When
7.30 pm, Wed 4 Nov 2026 (113 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art, Cinema A
Accessibility
- Subtitled
- Wheelchair Accessible
Admission
Free
About
"Petri’s absurdist political fable shared top honors at Cannes in 1972 with compatriot Francesco Rosi’s The Mattei Affair. A giddy, gut-level, sex-and-politics critique of industrial capitalism, the film features Petri regular Gian Maria Volonté as Lulu, a gung-ho Turin factory worker caught up in the dehumanizing wheels of mechanical production and meaningless mass consumption. Sexual fantasies drive his productivity for the company, but his perspective on work and life undergo a radical transformation when he is injured in a factory accident and temporarily laid off. Petri opts for an aggressive, expressionistic visual and aural approach that effectively captures the brutality of modern industrial working conditions." - Harvard Film Archive
Production Credits
- Director: Elio Petri
- Script: Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
- Cinematographer: Luigi Kuveiller
- Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni
- Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Mariangela Melato, Gino Pernice
- Print Source: Movietime SRL
- Rights: Movietime SRL
- Year: 1971
- Runtime: 113 minutes
- Country: Italy
- Language: Italian (with English subtitles)
- Colour: Colour
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: 2K DCP