The Working Class Goes to Heaven [Lulu the Tool]

Elio Petri (director, screenwriter)
Ugo Pirro (screenplay)
Gian Maria Volontè, Mariangela Melato, Gino Pernice (starring)

Burbank, CA: New Line Cinema, 1971 / 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1971 Italian film, here under the US release title "Lulu the Tool." Provenance stamp on the verso.

Director Elio Petri's socio-political drama, wherein, a hard working factory worker, Ludovico (Lulu), loses a finger in a working accident and joins a faction of workers calling for a strike, only to fired for agitational behavior after the workers reach an agreement with the management. Winner of the Palm d'Or.

Shot on location in Piedmont, Italy.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with faint creasing and a wax pencil annotation on the top right of the recto.


[Book #161899]