Happy As Lazzaro

Lazzaro (talented newcomer Adriano Tardiolo) is a beautiful peasant whose sweet nature makes people mistake him for simple-minded. He happily does the bidding of anyone in his local village, which is ruled over by the self-centred Marchesa (Nicoletta Braschi). He finds an unlikely friend in the Marchesa’s petulant son Tancredi, who convinces his hapless ally to help him stage a dramatic incident to secure a ransom from his mother. The film follows the adventures of this young man living on the margins of society, who can seemingly travel through time, arriving in the big city and appearing as a fragment of the past lost in the modern world.