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Happy as Lazzaro
Happy as Lazzaro

Happy as Lazzaro

2018 128 min ★ 7.4 Drama, Fantasy

Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.

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Cast

Adriano Tardiolo

Adriano Tardiolo

Lazzaro

Agnese Graziani

Agnese Graziani

Antonia (young)

Luke Chikovani

Luke Chikovani

Tancredi (young)

Alba Rohrwacher

Alba Rohrwacher

Antonia

Sergi López

Sergi López

Ultimo

Tommaso Ragno

Tommaso Ragno

Tancredi

Natalino Balasso

Natalino Balasso

Nicola

Nicoletta Braschi

Nicoletta Braschi

Marchesa Alfonsina De Luna

Carlo Massimino

Pippo

Daria Pascal Attolini

Maria Grazia (Adult)

Details

Director

Alice Rohrwacher

Status

Released

Original Language

IT

Production

Ad Vitam Production, Tempesta, Amka Films, Pola Pandora Filmproduktions, KNM, RAI Cinema, RSI, ARTE France Cinéma, ZDF/Arte

Reviews

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SWITCH.

June 6, 2019

★ 7/10

‘Happy as Lazzaro’ comes and goes like an airy fable but doesn’t make as much of an impact as it wants to. Through a lack of convincing and earned pivot, its first half in realism drags down the escapism it yearns for in its second half. Its ambition is to be commended and is definitely a film that deserves to be seen, but as a whole is just verging on greatness. - Ashley Teresa Read Ashley's ...

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BornKnight

February 23, 2024

★ 8/10

A tale (or fable?) of social commentary by directress and writer Alice Rohrwacher (that I first knew in the short "Le Pupille") in rural Italy with touches of anti capitalism and class division, where sharecroppers live, without knowing their semi-slavery state because of lack of knowledge. Lazzaro the protagonist, is an innocent character that is happy to make others happy, in the pureness of his...

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CinemaSerf

September 4, 2025

★ 7/10

Adriano Tardiolo is really good in this biblically apt story of the young “Lazzaro”. He’s a generous-spirited young man who energetically helps out in his community - one under the thumb of the uncaring dominatrix “Marchesa” (Nicoletta Braschi) who treats this agrarian community little better than the animals she describes them as. She has a teenage son “Tancredi” (Luca Chikovani) who, though spoi...

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