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Ninotchka 1939

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 110 min

genre: comedy

theme: romantic comedy

director: Ernst Lubitsch

Score: 6 / 10

Ninotchka is a 1939 American romantic comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. It was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Walter Reisch, based on a screen story by Melchior Lengyel. Ninotchka is Greta Garbo's first full comedy, and her penultimate film. It is one of the first American films which, under the cover of a satirical, light romance, depicted the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin as being rigid and gray, in this instance comparing it with the free and sunny Parisian society of pre-war years.

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Three Soviet agents, Iranoff (Sig Ruman), Buljanoff (Felix Bressart), and Kopalski (Alexander Granach), arrive in Paris to sell jewellery confiscated from the aristocracy during the Russian Revolution of 1917.

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author	Billy Wilder Charles Brackett Melchior Lengyel Walter Reisch
award	National Board of Review: Top Ten Films National Film Registry
contentLocation	Paris
director	Ernst Lubitsch John Waters
editor	Gene Ruggiero
genre	comedy political romance satire
keywords	censor constantinople cunning dinner date even first time hotel suite meet nobleman phone call russian revolution russian revolution of 1917 sale west white russian white russian emigre
musicBy	Werner R. Heymann
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Story Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
producer	Sidney Franklin
publisher	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
theme	propaganda romantic comedy