Nanon (1938 film)

Nanon
Directed by	Herbert Maisch
Written by	F Zell Richard Genée Georg Zoch Eberhard Keindorff
Produced by	Max Pfeiffer
Starring	Erna Sack Johannes Heesters Dagny Servaes
Cinematography	Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
Edited by	Carl Otto Bartning
Music by	Alois Melichar
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	15 November 1938
Running time	83 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Nanon is a 1938 German historical film directed by Herbert Maisch and starring Erna Sack, Johannes Heesters and Dagny Servaes. It is based on the operetta Nanon by Richard Genée with a libretto by F Zell.

Produced by the giant German studio UFA, it is part of a cycle of operetta films made during the 1930s. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut.

It was a remake of the 1924 silent film of the same title.

Cast

• Erna Sack as Nanon Patin
• Johannes Heesters as Marquis Charles d'Aubigne
• Dagny Servaes as Ninon de l'Enclos
• Kurt Meisel as Hector
• Otto Gebühr as Jean Baptiste Molière
• Oskar Sima as Marquis de Marsillac
• Karl Paryla as Louis XIV
• Berthold Ebbecke as Pierre
• Ursula Deinert as Tänzerin
• Clemens Hasse as Francois Patin
• Paul Westermeier as 1. Korporal
• Armin Schweizer as 2. Korporal
• Oskar Höcker as 3. Korporal
• Ilse Fürstenberg as Die Magd
• Ludwig Andersen as Sekretär
• Walter Steinbeck as Mons. Louvois
• Hermann Pfeiffer as Mons. Duval
• Horst Birr
• Lucie Euler
• Angelo Ferrari as Gast bei Ninon
• Eric Harden
• Alice Hechy
• Max Hiller
• Willy Kaiser-Heyl
• Hermann Meyer-Falkow
• Ellen Plessow
• Klaus Pohl
• Walter Schenk
• Erhart Stettner
• Robert Vincenti-Lieffertz
• Egon Vogel
• Leopold von Ledebur
• Wolfgang von Schwindt
• Helmut Weiss as Verehrer von Gräfin Ninon de Lenclos
• Herbert Weissbach

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• Nanon at IMDb