Happy as Lazzaro

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.

Cast

Adriano Tardiolo

as Lazzaro

Agnese Graziani

as Antonia (young)

Luke Chikovani

as Tancredi (young)

Alba Rohrwacher

as Antonia

Sergi López

as Ultimo

Tommaso Ragno

as Tancredi

Natalino Balasso

as Nicola

Nicoletta Braschi

as Marchesa Alfonsina De Luna

Carlo Massimino

as Pippo

Daria Pascal Attolini

as Maria Grazia (Adult)

Reviews

SWITCH.

‘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 ...

BornKnight

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 ...

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