FILM DAYS limited edition – 21 – 23 April 2023
FILMS 2019: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2018: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2017: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2016: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2015: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
Award-winning Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s modern fable concerns the innocent Lazzaro and the other villagers who live like medieval serfs on a tobacco plantation. Following a dramatic incident, they are dragged kicking and screaming into the modern world – whether they’ll be better off there or not remains to be seen.
The village of Inviolata (Italian for ‘unsullied’) lives up to its name in successful Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s third film. The small community of tobacco farmers lives as it has for centuries. However, the car belonging to the marchioness – who rules the plantation with an iron fist – and her son Tancredi’s mobile phone reveal that we are closer to the present than we might think.
In turn, the exploited villagers abuse the endless patience of young Lazzaro, who is innocence personified. From the moment he and Tancredi become friends, everything goes wrong. Following a dramatic incident, the villagers are dragged into the modern age. Lazzaro felice (a screenplay winner in Cannes) tells a wondrous tale in which fable and social realism unite, as if by magic.
Place: The Cinemas 2
Date: 11 April 2019
Time: 15:30
Duration: 1:40
Place: The Cinemas 5
Date: 14 April 2019
Time: 17:45
Duration: 1:40
Year in
Festival
2019
Director
Alice Rohrwacher
Camera
Héléne Louvart
Cast
Adriano Tardiolo
Agnese Graziani
Luca Chikovani
Alba Rohrwacher
Sergi López
Natalino Balasso
Tommaso Ragno
Country
Italy
Switzerland
France
Germany
Editor
Nelly Quettier
Language
Italian
Length
130′
Music
Piero Crucitti
Producer
Carlo Cresto-Dina
Tiziana Soudani
Gregory Gajos
Michael Weber
Production Company
Tempesta SRL
Amka Films Productions
Ad Vitam Production
Pola Pandora Film
Production Design
Emita Frigato
Sales
The Match Factory GmbH
Scenario
Alice Rohrwacher
Sound Design
Christophe Giovannoni
Year of Production
2018