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Ninotchka
Ninotchka is a 1939 American romantic comedy film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. The film 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 fourth and final Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
Plot
Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski, three agents from the Soviet 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
More details
| author | Billy Wilder Charles Brackett Melchior Lengyel Walter Reisch |
|---|---|
| award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | Paris |
| director | Ernst Lubitsch |
| editor | Gene Ruggiero |
| genre | comedy political satire |
| keywords | censor communal apartment constantinople cunning dinner date even falling in love first time hotel suite meet nobleman phone call russian revolution sale soviet union west white émigré white russian working class |
| 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 | romantic comedy screwball comedy |