Nana (2001)

Actors: Bruno Solo (actor), Christian Charret (producer), Edouard Molinaro (writer), Laurence Bachman (miscellaneous crew), Émile Zola (writer), Ticky Holgado (actor), Assumpta Serna (actress), Bernard Le Coq (actor), Jean-Claude Brialy (actor), Edouard Molinaro (director), Jocelyn Quivrin (actor), Cécile De France (actress), Violaine Petite (miscellaneous crew), Jean-François Luccioni (miscellaneous crew), Marcel Dossogne (actor),

Nanà (1999)

Actors: Assumpta Serna (actress), Émile Zola (writer), Antonello Fassari (actor), Bernard Giraudeau (actor), Günther Maria Halmer (actor), Sebastian Koch (actor), Sergio Donati (writer), Natalia Wörner (actress), Alberto Molinari (actor), Jacques Perrin (actor), Ennio Morricone (composer), Alberto Negrin (writer), Alberto Negrin (director), Emilio Bonucci (actor), Marco Landolfi (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: After a film of "Nana" is shown in 1914, the young cinema owner BORDENAVE # nephew of the former owner of the disreputable "Théâtre des Variétés" # asks an OLD LADY to tell him all about the legendary NANA. She begins to tell him the true story of Nana's life (unjustly altered by Zola). 1867-70: the young Nana, a street harlot, celebrates her acting debut at the "Théâtre des Variétés". She has average talent, but her incredible femininity and the magical attractions of her body soon gain her power over ministers, aristocrats, and numerous gentlemen in the respectable upper echelons of society, all of whom shower her with valuable gifts # even a villa of her own. The upper classes are not prepared to treat Nana as an equal, however # whereupon Nana promptly ends her liaison with COUNT MUFFAT. After her next relationship with the brutal, violent and alcoholic actor FONTAN, who takes her back onto the streets, Nana's heart is broken. Using her body as a weapon, she decides on a campaign of revenge. Falling for her yet again, Muffat buys her a lead role in the theater. Nana, the femme fatale, becomes a symbol of social success, and many aristocrats pay a small fortune to conquer her, even if only for one night. Anyone who comes into contact with her goes crazy about her and ends up destroyed (jail, suicide). When the winning horse in a race bears Nana's name, and all the most influential men in Parisian society throng around Nana, she revels in her social triumph. She then leaves Paris, only returning to take care of her sick girlfriend SATIN until her death. 1914: the old lady now informs young Bordenave that she is actually Nana. She tells the astonished young man that she bought a phony death certificate, and spent many happy years far away from Paris with Count Muffat until his death.

Nana (1983)

Actors: Jean-Pierre Aumont (actor), Yehuda Efroni (actor), Tom Felleghy (actor), Paul Muller (actor), Massimo Serato (actor), Yoram Globus (producer), Menahem Golan (producer), Émile Zola (writer), Ennio Morricone (composer), Dan Wolman (director), Annie Belle (actress), Ugo Pericoli (costume designer), Francesca Roberti (miscellaneous crew), Kent Adamson (miscellaneous crew), Ursula West (editor),

Plot: In Zola's Paris, an ingenue arrives at a tony bordello: she's Nana, guileless, but quickly learning to use her erotic innocence to get what she wants. She's an actress for a soft-core filmmaker and soon is the most popular courtesan in Paris, parlaying this into a house, bought for her by a wealthy banker. She tosses him and takes up with her neighbor, a count of impeccable rectitude, and with the count's impressionable son. The count is soon fetching sticks like a dog and mortgaging his lands to satisfy her whims. She bankrupts him, arranges the debauching of his wife, and seduces his son on his wedding day. What else can she accomplish before she leaves Paris airborne?

Nana (1955)

Actors: Paul Amiot (actor), Franck Maurice (actor), Jacques Castelot (actor), Nerio Bernardi (actor), Marcel Loche (actor), Walter Chiari (actor), André Dalibert (actor), Jean Debucourt (actor), Daniel Ceccaldi (actor), Paul Frankeur (actor), Marcel Charvey (actor), Charles Boyer (actor), Charles Lemontier (actor), Pierre Leproux (actor), Daniel Mendaille (actor),

Nana (1944)

Actors: Emilia Guiú (actress), Lupe Velez (actress), Mimí Derba (actress), Luis Alcoriza (actor), Conchita Gentil Arcos (actress), Miguel Ángel Ferriz (actor), Lupe del Castillo (actress), Crox Alvarado (actor), José Elías Moreno (actor), Victorio Blanco (actor), Jorge Reyes (actor), José Baviera (actor), Hernán Vera (actor), Roberto Corell (actor), Roberto Gavaldón (writer),

Nana (1926)

Actors: Dennis Price (actor), Claude Autant-Lara (actor), Jean Renoir (editor), Marie Prevost (actress), Claude Autant-Lara (costume designer), Émile Zola (writer), Jean Renoir (director), Jean Renoir (producer), Karl Harbacher (actor), Jean Angelo (actor), Werner Krauss (actor), Pierre Braunberger (actor), Pierre Lestringuez (actor), Pierre Lestringuez (writer), André Cerf (actor),

Plot: Based on the famous novel by Emile Zola. The vivacious and beautiful Nana seeks fame on the stages of Paris in the shows at the Théâtre des Variétés. (which will look familiar to lovers of "Children of Paradise"). When she bombs as an actress, Nana becomes a courtesan, using her allure and charisma more directly to entice and pleasure men. She is kept in a sumptuous fashion by a wealthy count, and several prominent and wealthy men find themselves unable to withstand her charms. In the novel, the theater manager describe Nana: "Nana has something else, dammit, and something that takes the place of everything else. I scented it out, and it smells damnably strong in her, or else I lost my sense of smell." But there's a pain and a pathos at the heart of Nana's situation, and it slowly makes its poisonous way into the lives of all in Nana's orbit.