Happy as Lazzaro

Name: Happy as Lazzaro
Genre: Drama
Released: 2022-04-29
Cast: Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Chikovani, Tommaso Ragno

Alice Rohrwacher's magical Cannes award-winning film about a kind-hearted young man pays an impressive tribute to classic cinema.

Lazzaro felice

Alice Rohrwacher

Italy 2018

Italian

Czech

125 min.

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This film is available until 31. 5. 2026 in these territories: Czechia, Slovakia.

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The Cannes jury conferred Best Screenplay (ex aequo with Jafar Panahi’s 3 Faces) on the third picture from the Italian director, who also turned heads on the French Riviera in previous years with Corpo Celeste and The Wonders. Addressing the question whether or not friendship can travel through time, Alice Rohrwacher responds with a dreamlike story of kindhearted Lazzaro, who embarks upon various adventures armed with an unshakable faith in human beings. “I wanted to use the adventures of Lazzaro to tell, as gently as possible, and with love and humour, of the tragedy that has devastated my country. The end of rural civilisation, the migration to city boundaries of thousands of people who knew nothing of modernity, and their giving up of little to have even less,” states the director.

Credits

Director: Alice Rohrwacher

Screenplay: Alice Rohrwacher, Carmela Covino

Cinematography: Hélène Louvart

Sound: Christophe Giovannoni, Marta Billingsley

Editing: Nelly Quettier

Production Design: Emita Frigato

Producer: Carlo Cresto-Dina, Gregory Gajos, Arthur Hallereau, Alexandra Henochsberg, Pierre-François Piet, Tiziana Soudani, Michael Weber

Costumes: Loredana Buscemi

Cast: Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Chikovani, Tommaso Ragno, Sergi López, Natalino Balasso, Carlo Tarmati, Pasqualina Scuncia, Nicoletta Braschi

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