Overview:
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.| Original Title: | Lazzaro felice |
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| Status: | Released (2018-05-31) |
| Awards: | 18 wins & 52 nominations total |
| Screen: | Alice Rohrwacher, Carmela Covino |
| Productions: | Ad Vitam Production, Tempesta, Amka Films, Pola Pandora Filmproduktions, KNM, RAI Cinema, RSI, ARTE France Cinéma, ZDF/Arte |
| Production Countries: | France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland |
| Spoken Languages: | Italiano |
Casts
- 1906186: Adriano Tardiolo - Lazzaro
- 1524907: Agnese Graziani - Antonia (young)
- 2046229: Luke Chikovani - Tancredi (young)
- 128748: Alba Rohrwacher - Antonia
- 16972: Sergi López - Ultimo
- 226353: Tommaso Ragno - Tancredi
- 586476: Natalino Balasso - Nicola
Crews
- 931211: Alice Rohrwacher - Director - Directing
- 931211: Alice Rohrwacher - Writer - Writing
- 56289: Hélène Louvart - Director of Photography - Camera
- 1016336: Nelly Quettier - Editor - Editing
- 1029114: Carlo Cresto-Dina - Producer - Production
- 2038538: Paolo Del Brocco - Co-Producer - Production
- 2161347: Barbara Tomada - Set Decoration - Art
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Reviews
SWITCH.
Review text:
‘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 definit ....
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Review text:
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 kno ....
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Review text:
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 litt ....
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