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El Lazarillo de Tormes

1959 Spanish film

This article is about the 1959 Italian-Spanish film. For the 16th-century Spanish picaresque novel, see Lazarillo de Tormes.

El Lazarillo de Tormes is a 1959 Spanish-Italian film directed by César Fernández Ardavín. An adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth century novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), it tells the story of Lazarillo, a poor boy who has to live by his wits after being sold to a series of cruel masters.

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Plot

The film focuses on the childhood of Lazarillo (Marco Paoletti), a young man from a very humble family who is entrusted by his mother to a blind man (Carlos Casaravilla) to serve as his apprentice.

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References

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    "Berlinale: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-01-15.


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