Happy as Lazzaro (2018)

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Plot

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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Trailer Trailer Trailer Official UK Trailer Clip Excerpt 1 Clip Excerpt 2 Clip Excerpt 3 Featurette Alice Rohrwacher on Writing 'Happy as Lazzaro' at FSLC and Returning to NYFF Featurette HAPPY AS LAZZARO Official Competition | BFI London Film Festival 2018

Cast

Adriano TardioloLazzaro

Agnese GrazianiAntonia (young)

Luca ChikovaniTancredi (young)

Adam HardmanAntonia

Alba RohrwacherAntonia

Sergi LópezUltimo

Tommaso RagnoTancredi

Nicoletta BraschiMarchesa Alfonsina De Luna

Writers and directors

Reg VermueDirector

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SWITCH. ★ 7.0/10

‘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 escap…6. Jun 2019

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BornKnight ★ 8.0/10

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…23. Feb 2024

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CinemaSerf ★ 7.0/10

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 uncari…4. Sep 2025

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