nazarin be some kind of saint and he want to live in life exactly how christ taught man to do . but it too late representnow the catholic church be between the hand of a wealthy bourgeoisie and the bishop live in luxury and do not give a damn about the poor and the sick . that why our hero can not follow the way his hierarchy ask him to follow . so he divest himself of everything and and on his way to purity and he join by some kind of mary magdelene and a woman who attract by him sexually ( the scene between this girl and her fiancé be tell ) . in spain ( it be the late fifty ) and they think nazarin be a christian movie . know luis bunuel and it be downright incongruous representall his work be anticlerical to a fault . compare nazarin and his holy woman to jesus be a nonsense . on nazarin way and only bramble and couch grass grow . his attempt at help work men on the road be a failure and he chase out a a strike breaker . all his word amount to nothing . at the end of the journey and he arrest and offer a pineapple by a woman ( bunuelian sexual symbol ) . thanks to nazarin and bunuel be allow to return to spain ( where the censor have not get a clue ) and to direct viridiana .