Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice)

Kind farmworker Lazzaro lives among sharecroppers on the isolated tobacco estate Inviolata, where Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna illegally keeps the community in debt. His friendship with her son Tancredi leads beyond the estate and into a transformed modern world.

Rohrwacher moves from textured 16 mm pastoral realism into modern fable without abandoning Lazzaro's openhearted viewpoint, deploying landscape, faces, labor, and temporal rupture to expose exploitation across changing eras.