El Lazarillo de Tormes is a 1959 Spanish-Italian film directed by César Fernández ArdavÃÂn. 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.
The film focuses on the childhood of Lazarillo, a young man from a very humble family who is entrusted by his mother to a blind man to serve as his apprentice.