# The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)

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**Original title**: *La classe operaia va in paradiso*
**Runtime**: 113 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Elio Petri
**Written by**: Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
**Starring**: Gian Maria Volonté, Mariangela Melato, Salvo Randone, Gino Pernice, Luigi Diberti, Mietta Albertini

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Lulu meets *The Insult* minus the courtroom. A factory hand loses a digit becomes a loudmouth for the underpaid masses. Gian Maria Volontè rides the rage while Petri nails late-Sixties Italy’s class rage.

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