Just out of jail, rumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itinerant grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up.
As the son of two inmates Hyacinth was always more at home in prison than in the outside world, until he took part in a foot race that promised to change his life.
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.
Adriano Tardiolo was attending the high school when he was discovered by talent scouts for Alice Rohrwacher's film 'Happy as Lazzaro' (2018). Although he had no acting experience, he won the title role against more than a thousand competitors of the same age. Tardiolo went on to study economics at Università degli Studi della Tuscia in Viterbo.
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