Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.
Direction
Renoir's early visual poetry before his famous humanism.
Cinematography
Expressionist shadows meet theatrical excess.
Director
Jean Renoir
Catherine Hessling
Nana
Pierre Lestringuez
Bordenave
Jacqueline Forzane
Countess Sabine Muffat
Werner Krauss
Count Muffat
Jean Angelo
Count de Vandeuvres
Raymond Guérin-Catelain
Georges Hugon
Claude Autant-Lara
Fauchery
Pierre Champagne
Hector de la Faloise
Valeska Gert
Zoe
Dennis Price
Nana's Jockey
Luc Dartagnan
Maréchal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Catherine Hessling was Renoir's first wife, and he cast her in nearly all his early films. Their divorce came shortly after this production wrapped.
Émile Zola's 1880 novel was so scandalous it helped define 'naturalism' as literary pornography for the bourgeoisie. Renoir's adaptation keeps the moralizing but adds visual splendor.
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