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  1. Nana is a 1926 French silent drama film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Catherine Hessling, Werner Krauss and Jean Angelo. It was Renoir's second full-length film and is based on the 1880 novel by Émile Zola. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and the Neuilly Studios in Paris.

  2. An in-depth review of the film Nana (1926) directed by Jean Renoir, featuring Catherine Hessling, Pierre Lestringuez, Jacqueline Forzane.

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  3. Where La Fille De L'Eau arises out of the Griffith tradition, his second film,Nana (1926), is influenced by the extravagant work of Erich von Stroheim (Renoir claimed to have seen his 1922 film Foolish Wives over ten times). Based on the novel by Emile Zola, it again stars Hessling in the lead, this time in the mercenary role of a second-rate ...

  4. Nana is a French film by Jean Renoir, grandson of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, first exhibited in 1926. This movie, as Noël Burch recommends, is the perfect example of the use of ellipses, the conscious fragmentation of planes, actions or objects, and…

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  5. Paris at the end of the Second Empire: Nana, the star of the Théâtre des Variétés thanks to her looks rather than her talent, is determined to succeed socially. She gets her chance when Baron Muffat, the Empress's Chamberlain, falls desperately in love with her.

  6. Sep 10, 2012 · Renoir's rare 1926 adaptation of Zola's novel about a gamine's rise to riches and notoriety during the Second Empire, and widely regarded as the...

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  8. When the vivacious and beautiful Nana bombs at the Théâtre des Variétés, she embarks on the life of a courtesan, using her allure and charisma to entice and pleasure men. Based on the famous novel by Emile Zola.