Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice)
Modern Films Entertainment
Distribution: Selective Scheme
England
2018
Total project grant (euros)
103,000
Programme
Creative Europe
Sub-programme
MEDIA
Funding scheme
Distribution: Selective Scheme
Call number
12/2017
Call publication date
5 Oct 2017
Application deadline
14 Jun 2018
Result publication date
24 Oct 2018
Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice) is a 2018 Italian film directed by Alice Rohrwacher that follows the adventures of a man living on the margins of his society who can seemingly travel through time.
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.
Happy as Lazzaro won the award for Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival 2018.





