Ninotchka
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 story by Melchior Lengyel. Ninotchka marked the first comedy role for Garbo, and her penultimate film; she received her third and final Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
Plot
Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski, three agents from the Russian Board of Trade, arrive in Paris to sell jewelry confiscated from the aristocracy during the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Awards
Cast
- Alexander Granach
- Armand Kaliz
- Bela Lugosi
- Bess Flowers
- Dorothy Adams
- Edwin Maxwell
- Ellinor Vanderveer
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Felix Bressart
- Frank Reicher
- George Tobias
- Gregory Gaye
- Greta Garbo
- Ina Claire
- Lawrence Grant
- Mary Forbes
- Melvyn Douglas
- Peggy Moran
- Richard Carle
- Rolfe Sedan
- Sig Ruman
- Tamara Shayne
- William Irving
- Wolfgang Zilzer