Nana (1944 film)

1944 film by Roberto Gavaldón, Celestino Gorostiza

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Nana

Directed by| Roberto Gavaldón
Celestino Gorostiza
Written by| Émile Zola
Celestino Gorostiza
Produced by| Alberto Sanatnder
Starring| Lupe Vélez
Miguel Ángel Ferriz
Luis Alcoriza
Cinematography| Alex Phillips
Edited by| Charles L. Kimball
Music by| Jorge Pérez

Release date

* June 2, 1944 (1944-06-02)

Running time

| 87 minutes
Country| Mexico
Language| Spanish

Nana is a 1944 Mexican film by Celestino Gorostiza and Roberto Gavaldón. The film is an adaptation of Émile Zola's 1880 novel Nana, and is the last film of the Mexican star Lupe Vélez.

## Plot

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Based in the Émile Zola novel of the same name, which details the life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century.

## Cast

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* Lupe Vélez as Nana
* Miguel Ángel Ferriz as Muffat
* Chela Castro as Rosa Mignon
* Crox Alvarado as Fontan
* Luis Alcoriza as De Fauchery
* Conchita Gentil Arcos as Zoe

## Production notes

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This was the last movie for Lupe Vélez, who committed suicide later the same year.

There was a second Mexican adaptation of Nana, also called Nana, in 1985, produced by and starring Irma Serrano.

## External links

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* Nana at IMDb

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Films directed by Roberto Gavaldón

* The Count of Monte Cristo (1942)
* Nana (1944)
* The Shack (1945)
* The Associate (1946)
* The Kneeling Goddess (1947)
* The Private Life of Mark Antony and Cleopatra (1947)
* Adventures of Casanova (1948)
* The Shadow of the Bridge (1948)
* The Little House (1950)
* Rosauro Castro (1950)
* Desired (1951)
* In the Palm of Your Hand (1951)
* The Night Falls (1952)
* Soledad's Shawl (1952)
* The Boy and the Fog (1953)
* Remember to Live (1953)
* The Three Perfect Wives (1953)
* Camelia (1954)
* Untouched (1954)
* After the Storm (1955)
* The Littlest Outlaw (1955)
* The Hidden One (1956)
* Ash Wednesday (1958)
* Beyond All Limits (1959)
* Macario (1960)
* Rosa Blanca (1961)
* Autumn Days (1963)
* El hombre de los hongos (1976)

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Émile Zola

Les Rougon-Macquart|

* La Fortune des Rougon
* La Curée
* Le Ventre de Paris
* La Conquête de Plassans
* La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret
* Son Excellence Eugène Rougon
* L'Assommoir
* Une page d'amour
* Nana
* Pot-Bouille
* Au Bonheur des Dames
* La joie de vivre
* Germinal
* L'Œuvre
* La Terre
* Le Rêve
* La Bête humaine
* L'Argent
* La Débâcle
* Le Docteur Pascal

Other novels|

* Les Mystères de Marseille
* Thérèse Raquin
* Madeleine Férat
* L'Inondation

Non-fiction|

* J'Accuse...!

Libretti|

* Messidor (1897)
* L'Ouragan (1901)
* L'Enfant roi (1905)
* Les Quatre journées (1916)

Film adaptations|

* L'Assommoir (1909)
* Germinal (1913)
* Maddalena Ferat (1920)
* The Earth (1921)
* Nana (1926)
* L'Argent (1928)
* Thérèse Raquin (1928)
* The Struggle (1931)
* Nana (1934)
* La Bête Humaine (1938)
* Shop Girls of Paris (1943)
* Nana (1944)
* Thérèse Raquin (1953)
* Human Desire (1954)
* Nana (1955)
* Gervaise (1956)
* La Bestia humana (1957)
* Lovers of Paris (1957)
* Germinal (1963)
* The Game Is Over (1966)
* The Demise of Father Mouret (1970)
* Nana, the True Key of Pleasure (1982)
* Nana (1985)
* Germinal (1993)
* Thirst (2009)
* In Secret (2013)

Musical adaptations|

* Le Rêve (1891 opera)
* L'attaque du moulin (1893 opera)
* Lazare (1903 oratorio)
* Naïs Micoulin (1907 opera)
* Thou Shalt Not (2001 musical)
* Thérèse Raquin (2001 opera)

Television adaptations|

* Cruel Train (1995 film)
* The Paradise (2012 series)
* The Ladies' Paradise (2015 series)

Related|

* François Zola (father)
* Naturalism
* Portrait of Emile Zola (1868 painting)
* A Studio at Les Batignolles (1870 painting)
* The Life of Emile Zola (1937 film)
* Cézanne et Moi (2016 film)

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