Nanon (1938 film)

Nanon
Directed by	Herbert Maisch
Produced by	Max Pfeiffer
Written by	F Zell Richard Genée Georg Zoch Eberhard Keindorff
Starring	Erna Sack Johannes Heesters Dagny Servaes
Music by	Alois Melichar
Cinematography	Konstantin Irmen-Tschet
Edited by	Carl Otto Bartning
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release dates	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