01
The Organizer
Why this pick
Like Petri’s film, it turns factory labour into a pressured, darkly comic collective struggle, balancing political anger with the workers’ messy, vulnerable lives.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1971 2h 5m ITA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
The Working Class Goes to Paradise
Drama
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
If you loved The Working Class Goes to Paradise, try these.
01
02
The Match Factory Girl
Why this pick
Its spare, deadpan style and working-class heroine echo the emotional chill and social cruelty beneath Petri’s satirical portrait of labour.
03
Harlan County U.S.A.
Why this pick
This urgent documentary offers the real-world collective resistance that surrounds Lulu’s factory life, with uncompromising attention to work, power, and class conflict.
04
Norma Rae
Why this pick
Another forceful story of a factory worker politicized by punishing conditions, driven by intimate character stakes rather than a polished heroic gloss.
05
Sorry We Missed You
Why this pick
It updates the same systemic rage for precarious gig work, observing how relentless productivity demands erode a working family from the inside.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
Our curator needs a little longer. Please come back shortly.
No confident matches yet. Try our personal film finder.
01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Lulu Massa is a highly productive worker at a factory paying piece work but is disliked by his colleagues as his efficiency is used by management to justify their demands for higher output. While employees are told to care for and rely on their machines, they see radical students outside the factory campaigning for higher pay rates and less work. Lulu lives with Lidia and her son. He puts his lack of interest in sex with her down to the pressures of the job.
Showing saved details. Some information may be out of date.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Adriano Amidei Migliano
il tecnico
Giuseppe Fortis
Valli
Corrado Solari
Mena
Flavio Bucci
un collega di Lulù
Gian Maria Volonté
Lulù Massa
Mariangela Melato
Lidia
Luigi Diberti
Bassi