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la classe operaia va in paradiso, ennio morricone, gdm music
€ 18.00

 
La classe operaia va in paradiso
(1971)


composer: ennio morricone

label: GDM music

AKA: Lulu The Tool, The Working Class Goes To Heaven

total duration: 01.04.47

soundtrack style: Drama



   


tracks
01. La classe operaia va in paradiso
02. Metamorfosi
03. Sinfonia dell'ottimista
04. Inventario
05. Tempi di lavorazione
06. Il sogno
07. Pazzia di lavoro
08. Alienazione
09. La classe operaia va in paradiso # 2
10. Matamorfosi # 2
11. Sinfonia dell'ottimista # 02
12. Alenazione # 2
13. Inventario # 2
14. La classe operaia va in paradiso # 3
 
 
further information
Limited edition of 500 copies
De-Luxe 8 pages colour booklet enriched from archival photos
 
description
GDM Music is glad to present on a special edition CD the OST by Ennio Morricone for the movie La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso directed in 1971 by Elio Petri and written with Ugo Pirro, starring Gian Maria Volontè, Mariangela Melato, Salvo Randone and Luigi Diberti.
The movie won the Grand Prix as best movie 1972 Cannes Film Festival.

La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso explores through the character of Ludovico Massa known as Lulù (Volontè), the universe inside the italian factory in the '70s , telling the alienated relationship of the working men with the machine and the stressing production time, but also investigating on the life of the working men outside their work place.
This alienation is perfectly given by the original score of Ennio Morricone expressing in music throughout the atmosphere of the Italian factory during '70s:
the relationship man-machine immersed in a hellish world of smoke and sparks, where the deafening and obsessive mechanical noise of the machines enters into the head at any moment of the working day, so dramatically, so desperately.
Morricone has created an OST that alternates violent times to other ambiguous and apparently calm ones where a recurring military taste march dominates, with electronic effects, distorted electric guitars and mandolins in pure Indagine Su Un Cittadino Al Di Sopra Di Ogni Sospetto style that imitate the noise of the industrial machines.

For this CD, digitally restored and remastered, the full master tapes of the original session survived until today only in mono have been used and, in addition to the stereo mix of the original album tracks, six unreleased mono tracks have been added.

De-Luxe eight pages colour booklet enriched from archival photos.
Limited pressing.

 
story

If this Italian drama were any less well told, it would come off as a pure union propaganda piece.
Instead, it is a worthy film for the director who made the acclaimed film Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion.
In any manufacturing situation, it simply doesn't pay to be the fastest and hardest working person on the assembly line.
In the first place, you probably can't keep up the pace you've set. In the second place, you make all your co-workers a) look bad and b) have to work harder;
they will not thank you for this.
Appearances to the contrary, it's a really stupid thing to do.
However, Lulu Massa (Gian Maria Volonte) doesn't understand this simple principle, and he enjoys the pay bonuses he gets from management , until he has to leave work to recuperate from an accident in which he lost a finger.
During that time, he visits a colleague who shows him not only the error of his own ways, but the horror of his whole working situation.
When he goes back to work, Massa tries to organize a union.
At first, he is just as unpopular with his co-workers as before, but he is persistent.

Cast:
Mariangela Melato, Luigi Diberti, Salvo Randone, Renata Zamengo, Mietta Albertini, Donato Castellaneta, Ezio Marano, Giuseppe Fortis, Gino Pernice

Director:
Elio Petri

 

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