Screens Sunday, October 23, 5:30 pm
Nazarin
Mexico / 1958 / 94 min
Director: Luis Buñuel
Producers: Manuel Barbachano Ponce, Producciones Barbachano Ponce
Screenwriters: Julio Alejandro, Luis Buñuel; Based on the story Homonima by Benito Perez Galdos
Cinematographer: Gabriel Figueroa
Editor: Carlos Savage
Art Director: Edward Fitzgerald
Music: Dios nunca muere, Macedonio Alcala; Tambores de la semana santa en Calanda
Taking the word of God literally, a priest gets rid of all his minimal possessions and abandons his church along with two of his most fervent followers. His attitude makes him to be the cause of a series of problems and confrontations of grave consequences that eventually send him to jail. When he is taken back along with other prisoners, along the way he is offered a fruit by a country woman. Such action awakes in him a different perspective of human kindness and solidarity, so different and unique from the one discussed at his pulpit.
Tomando al pie de la letra la palabra de dios, un cura se despoja de todos sus bienes materiales que son casi nada y abandona su iglesia acompañado de dos de sus fervientes seguidoras para convivir con los humildes. Su actitud lo lleva a ser el causante de una serie de problemas y enfrentamientos de graves consecuencias que finalmente lo llevan a la carcel. Cuando con los presos es llevado de regreso, en el camino recibe una fruta que desinteresadamente le ofrece una campesina, lo que despierta en el una nueva concepción de la bondad y la solidaridad humana tan diferentes de las que se habla desde los pulpitos de las iglesias y al mismo tiempo tan autenticas.
Cast: Francisco Rabal, Marga Lopez, Rita Macedo, Ignacio Lopez Tarso, Ofelia Guilmain, Luis Aceves Castaneda, Noe Murayama, Rosa Mendez=Rosenda Monteros, Jesus Fernandez, Ada Carrasco, Antonio Bravo, Aurora Molina, David Reynoso, Pilar Pellicer, Edmundo Barbero, Raul Dantes, Lupe Carriles, Manuel Arvide, Jose Chavez Trowe, Ignacio Peon, Arturo Bigoton Castro, Victorio Blanco, Cecilia Leger, Ramon Sanchez, Socorro Avelar
Awards: Jury Award, Cannes Ex Aequo, 1959; Medalla Andre Bazin to Luis Buñuel, 1960
Film Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Film Year: 1958
Run Time: 94 min