Born in Madrid in 1923 and dying in Boadilla del Monte in 2012, César Fernández Ardavín was a Spanish director and screenwriter who made more than forty films between 1952 and 1979. He was the nephew of the director Eusebio Fernández Ardavín, with whom he began his career. His best-known work, El Lazarillo de Tormes (1959), an adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth-century picaresque novel, won the Golden Bear at the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. Other films include Tangier Assignment (1955) and The Wanton of Spain (1969).
Filmography
- El Lazarillo de Tormes (1959)
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