Lazzaro Felice

Happy as Lazzaro
Glücklich wie Lazzaro
Heureux comme Lazzaro

Italy / France / Switzerland / Germany, May 2018
FILM, Fiction, 120 min.

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directed by
Alice Rohrwacher
Written by
Alice Rohrwacher
Status
In distribution

This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the terrible Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna, the queen of cigarettes. A loyal bond is sealed when Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him orchestrate his own kidnapping. This strange and improbable alliance is a revelation for Lazzaro. A friendship so precious that it will travel in time and transport Lazzaro in search of Tancredi. His first time in the big city, Lazzaro is like a fragment of the past lost in the modern world.

La storia di Lazzaro, un uomo buono, che non cambia mai mentre il mondo intorno a lui cambia vertiginosamente e lo travolge.

credits

World Premiere
May 2018
Original Version
Italian (english subtitles),  colour, DCP, 120 min.
ISAN
0000-0004-699C-0000-V-0000-0000-I
Production
tempesta srl, Amka Films Productions SA, Pola Pandora Filmproduktions GmbH, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, Ad Vitam, RAI Cinema
Producer
Carlo Cresto-Dina, Tiziana Soudani
directed by
Alice Rohrwacher
Written by
Alice Rohrwacher
Cinemato­graphy
Hélène Louvart
Editing
Nelly Quettier
Location Sound Mix
Christophe Giovannoni
Sound Editing
Martha Billingsley
Production Design
Emita Frigato
Costumes
Loredana Buscemi

Cast

Adriano Tardiolo
Alba Rohrwacher
Tommaso Ragno
Luca Chikovani
Agnese Graziani
Sergi Lopez
Natalino Balasso
Nicoletta Braschi

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
The Match Factory

Worldwide Distribution

Austria
Filmladen Distribution
Release date: 01.11.2018
France
Ad Vitam Distribution
Release date: 07.11.2018
Germany
Piffl Medien GmbH Distribution
Release date: 13.09.2018
Italy
01 Distribution Distribution
Release date: 31.05.2018
Serbia
MCF Megacom Film Distribution
Release date: 05.04.2019
Spain
Vertigo Films Distribution
Release date: 09.11.2018
Switzerland
Filmcoopi Zürich AG Distribution
Release date: 04.10.2018
United Kingdom
Modern Films Distribution

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