Nazarin (Nazarín) (1959)

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7.8	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Luis Buñuel

Starring (View all)

Marga López
Beatriz

Francisco Rabal
Padre Nazario

Rita Macedo
Andara

Ignacio López Tarso
El sacrílego

Noé Murayama
El pinto

Rosenda Monteros
La prieta

Ada Carrasco
Josefa

Antonio Bravo
Don Pablo, architecto

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Julio Alejandro

Luis Buñuel

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Description: Acclaimed director Luis Buñuel displays several of his trademark interests in this drama about a priest who leaves his order. The director's disdain for organized religion and the establishment, as well as his tendency to shock through visual imagery, are both apparent. Nazarin (Francisco Rabal) is the priest who leaves his order and decides to go on a pilgrimage. As he goes along subsisting on alms, he shelters a prostitute wanted by the police for murder. He is released from suspicion and she eventually catches up with him when she escapes imprisonment. Another woman joins the duo and soon the ex-priest is learning more about ... (more)

Release date: 20 June 1968

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"11.8. 2023 The main character of "Nazarin" is a priest who is truly dedicated to his job but society, police, and church consider him a dangerous rebel who needs to be eradicated one way or another. He takes kind of risks during his journey that make him look mad in the eyes of all the people who just want to survive and live their mediocre life. The priest could as well be a dedicated socialist ideologue who struggles to survive in an oppressive totalitarian state. Buñuel's emotionally thrill"