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Happy as Lazzaro

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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.

Release Date : 2018-05-31

Language :Italian

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Ad Vitam ProductionTempestaAmka FilmsPola Pandora FilmproduktionsKNMRAI CinemaRSIARTE France CinémaZDF/Arte

Production Country : FranceGermanyItalySwitzerland

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Adriano Tardiolo

Character Name : Lazzaro

Original Name : Adriano Tardiolo

Gender : Male

Agnese Graziani

Character Name : Antonia (young)

Original Name : Agnese Graziani

Gender : Female

Luke Chikovani

Character Name : Tancredi (young)

Original Name : Luca Chikovani

Gender : Male

Alba Rohrwacher

Character Name : Antonia

Original Name : Alba Rohrwacher

Gender : Female

Sergi López

Character Name : Ultimo

Original Name : Sergi López

Gender : Male

Tommaso Ragno

Character Name : Tancredi

Original Name : Tommaso Ragno

Gender : Male

Natalino Balasso

Character Name : Nicola

Original Name : Natalino Balasso

Gender : Male

Nicoletta Braschi

Character Name : Marchesa Alfonsina De Luna

Original Name : Nicoletta Braschi

Gender : Female

Carlo Massimino

Character Name : Pippo

Original Name : Carlo Massimino

Gender : Male

Daria Pascal Attolini

Character Name : Maria Grazia (Adult)

Original Name : Daria Pascal Attolini

Gender : Female

Maddalena Baiocco

Character Name : Stefania

Original Name : Maddalena Baiocco

Gender : Male

Giulia Caccavello

Character Name : Teresa

Original Name : Giulia Caccavello

Gender : Male

Annunziata Capretto

Character Name : Natalina anziana

Original Name : Annunziata Capretto

Gender : Male

Alessandro Genovesi

Character Name : Maresciallo

Original Name : Alessandro Genovesi

Gender : Male

Davide Denci

Character Name : Appuntato

Original Name : Davide Denci

Gender : Male

Edoardo Montalto

Character Name : Pippo (young)

Original Name : Edoardo Montalto

Gender : Male

Leonardo Nigro

Character Name :

Original Name : Leonardo Nigro

Gender : Male

Gala Othero Winter

Character Name : Stefania

Original Name : Gala Othero Winter

Gender : Female

Iris Pulvano

Character Name : Natalina (adult)

Original Name : Iris Pulvano

Gender : Male

Ettore Scarpa

Character Name : Maresciallo

Original Name : Ettore Scarpa

Gender : Male

Pasqualina Scuncia

Character Name : Suora

Original Name : Pasqualina Scuncia

Gender : Female

Carlo Tarmati

Character Name : Carletto

Original Name : Carlo Tarmati

Gender : Male

Pascal Tréguy

Character Name : Head animal trainer

Original Name : Pascal Tréguy

Gender : Male

Daria Deflorian

Character Name : Donna Truffata

Original Name : Daria Deflorian

Gender : Female

Elisabetta Rocchetti

Character Name : Teresa (adult)

Original Name : Elisabetta Rocchetti

Gender : Female

Luciano Vergaro

Character Name : Catirre adulto

Original Name : Luciano Vergaro

Gender : Male

Annibale De Luca

Character Name : Catirre anziano

Original Name : Annibale De Luca

Gender : Male

Giuseppe Corsini

Character Name : Ardito adulto

Original Name : Giuseppe Corsini

Gender : Male

Marcello Duranti

Character Name : Ardito anziano

Original Name : Marcello Duranti

Gender : Male

Marco Donno

Character Name : Don Severino

Original Name : Marco Donno

Gender : Male

Nicola Sorci

Character Name : Giuseppe

Original Name : Nicola Sorci

Gender : Male

Sofia Stangherlin

Character Name : Mariagrazia

Original Name : Sofia Stangherlin

Gender : Male

Silvia Lucarini

Character Name : Mariù (young)

Original Name : Silvia Lucarini

Gender : Male

Cinzia de Luca

Character Name : Mariù (adult)

Original Name : Cinzia de Luca

Gender : Male

Lucia Centoscudi

Character Name : Grandmother Agostina

Original Name : Lucia Centoscudi

Gender : Male

Anita Crucitti

Character Name : Assuntina

Original Name : Anita Crucitti

Gender : Male

David Bennent

Character Name : Swiss engineer

Original Name : David Bennent

Gender : Male

Antonio Salines

Character Name : Nicola anziano

Original Name : Antonio Salines

Gender : Male

Reviews

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SWITCH.

@maketheSWITCH

2021-06-23

‘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 full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-happy-as-lazzaro-more-than-meets-the-eye

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BornKnight

@BornKnight

2024-02-23

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 heart. He doesn't know who is his father of mother just who is maybe his grandmother. There are very few signs of when this passes you can guess the 60 or 70's till later you see a cellphone of the 90's. So this is the condition that those people lives. They live under Marchesa Alfonsina De Luna state till one day Lazzaro meets the rebellious son of her, Tancredi, that wants to live away from the rot of his bankrupt family, so he devise a plan. A plan that unwillingly ends ends with and event that throws Lazzaro in the future 20 to 30 years ahead. By chance or destiny he meet robbers in the now decadent rural mansion (not knowing that they are people of his past "family") and in the city where he is recognized by an old female friend (the role is played by the older sister of Rohrwacher, Alba) - the only one that sees the miracle of him not ageing anything at all (and not all broken and bloody by the event that happened so many years ago, not seen by anyone). In this urban future he ends up living within the same ignorant and individualist clan (with some exceptions) and ends up meeting by chance the Baroness son again, decadent as ever in his dreams of richness that broke his spirit. Not telling the end after all this spoilers, but it is sad to see Lazzaro so pure treated as nothing, unhappy by his friend status, and trying to correct things in a wrong way in his innocency (no, it doesn't have an happy ending). A movie that may not be for everyone but that shines to see such saintness and pureness of heart among our society. Good cinematography and choice of colors, with Kodak Super 16mm film by cinematographer DP Hélène Louvart AFC and good acting by the protagonist, the newcomer Adriano Tardiolo. I would score this one a 8.0 out of 10.0 / A-.