Happy as Lazzaro
May 31 2018
•2h 8m
•Drama, Fantasy
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.
Cast
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Adriano Tardiolo
Lazzaro
Agnese Graziani
Antonia (young)
Luke Chikovani
Tancredi (young)
Alba Rohrwacher
Antonia
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