Story Line
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.
Top Cast

Adriano Tardiolo
Lazzaro

Agnese Graziani
Antonia (young)

Luke Chikovani
Tancredi (young)

Alba Rohrwacher
Antonia

Sergi López
Ultimo

Tommaso Ragno
Tancredi
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Rating
7.4/ 10
Release Date
2018-05-31
Runtime
2h 8m
Genres
DramaFantasy
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User Reviews (3)

SWITCH.
7/10
•6/6/2019‘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...
BornKnight
8/10
•2/23/2024A 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-sl...

CinemaSerf
7/10
•9/4/2025Adriano 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 t...






