Happy as Lazzaro
A lyrical, magic-realist fable about innocence and class set in rural Italy, where an unlikely friendship between a pure-hearted sharecropper and a nobleman's son unfolds with dreamlike beauty and spiritual weight.
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.
Essence
Ensemble
Adriano Tardiolo
Lazzaro
Agnese Graziani
Antonia (young)
Luke Chikovani
Tancredi (young)
Alba Rohrwacher
Antonia
Sergi López
Ultimo
Tommaso Ragno
Tancredi
Natalino Balasso
Nicola
Nicoletta Braschi
Marchesa Alfonsina De Luna
Carlo Massimino
Pippo
Daria Pascal Attolini
Maria Grazia (Adult)
Maddalena Baiocco
Stefania
Giulia Caccavello
Teresa
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