Lazarillo

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Lazarillo ★★ El Lazarillo de Tormes 1959

In 17th-century Castille, a fatherless boy, abandoned by his mother, finds work with a strange succession of employers, including a blind beggar, fake nobleman, and traveling band of performers. They all teach him lessons in survival as well as cunning and deception. Spanish with subtitles. 109m/B VHS . SP Marco Paoletti, Juan Jose Menendez, Carlos Casaravilla, Margarita Lozano; D: Cesar Ardavin; W: Cesar Ardavin; M: Ruiz De Luna. Berlin Intl. Film Fest. ‘60: Film.