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A priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor.A priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor.A priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
Efraín Arauz
- Vecino de Nazarin
- (uncredited)
Manuel Arvide
- Compañero de architecto
- (uncredited)
Socorro Avelar
- Vecina de Josefa
- (uncredited)
Edmundo Barbero
- don Ángel-cura
- (uncredited)
Victorio Blanco
- Viejo preso
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOne of Andrei Tarkovsky's favorite films
- Quotes
Father Nazario: Night carries yesterday's sorrow and the hope and joy of a new day. That's what death is like. Joyous and sorrowful. Joyous because it frees us of life's chains. And sorrowful because we love our flesh and it hurts us to leave it.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Regarding Buñuel (2000)
- SoundtracksDios nunca muere
Written by Macedonio Alcalá
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Nazarin is some kind of saint,he wants to live in life exactly how Christ taught man to do.But it's too late:now the Catholic Church is in the hands of a wealthy bourgeoisie,the bishops live in luxury and don't give a damn about the poor and the sick.That's why our hero can't follow the way his hierarchy asks him to follow.So he divests himself of everything,and on his way to purity,he's joined by some kind of Mary Magdelene and a woman who's attracted by him sexually (the scene between this girl and her fiancé is telling).In Spain (it was the late fifties),they thought Nazarin was a Christian movie!Knowing Luis Bunuel,it was downright incongruous:all his work is anticlerical to a fault.Comparing Nazarin and his "holy women" to Jesus is a nonsense.On Nazarin's way,only brambles and couch grass grow.His attempt at helping working men on the road is a failure,he's chased out as a strike-breaker.All his words amount to nothing.At the end of the journey,he's arrested and offered a pineapple by a woman(Bunuelian sexual symbol). Thanks to "Nazarin" ,Bunuel was allowed to return to Spain (where the censors had not got a clue ) and to direct "Viridiana".
- dbdumonteil
- Aug 2, 2001
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- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
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