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 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

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

Cast

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 first time hotel suite meet nobleman phone call russian revolution russian revolution of 1917 sale soviet union 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	romantic comedy screwball comedy