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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 screen story by Melchior Lengyel. Ninotchka is Greta Garbo's first full comedy, and her penultimate film; she received her third and final Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. 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. In 1990, Ninotchka was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2011, Time also included the film on the magazine's list of "All-Time 100 Movies".
Plot
Iranoff (Sig Ruman), Buljanoff (Felix Bressart), and Kopalski (Alexander Granach), 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
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 historical political romance satire |
| keywords | censor communal apartment constantinople cunning dinner date 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 | romantic comedy |