In Zola's Paris, an ingenue arrives at a tony bordello: she's Nana, guileless, but quickly learning to use her erotic innocence to get what she wants. She's an actress for a soft-core filmmaker and soon is the most popular courtesan in Paris, parlaying this into a house, bought for her by a wealthy banker. She tosses him and takes up with her neighbor, a count of impeccable rectitude, and with the count's impressionable son. The count is soon fetching sticks like a dog and mortgaging his lands to satisfy her whims.

• The Cannon Group
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Katya Berger
• Jean-Pierre Aumont
• Yehuda Efroni
• Mandy Rice-Davies
• Massimo Serato
• Debra Berger
• Shirin Taylor
• Annie Belle