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Ninotchka
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
1939 · Directed by Ernst Lubitsch · 110 min · Comedy · Romance · 19 frames
Tagline
Garbo Laughs!
Crew
- Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch
- Cinematography: William H. Daniels
- Edited by: Gene Ruggiero
- Music: Werner R. Heymann
Cast
- Greta Garbo as Nina "Ninotchka" Ivanovna Yakushova
- Melvyn Douglas as Count Leon d'Algout
- Ina Claire as Grand Duchess Swana
- Bela Lugosi as Commissar Razinin
- Sig Ruman as Comrade Iranoff
- Felix Bressart as Comrade Buljanoff
- Alexander Granach as Comrade Kopalski
- Gregory Gaye as Count Alexis Rakonin
- Rolfe Sedan as Hotel Manager
- Edwin Maxwell as Mercier
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Russian
- Studios: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Budget: $1,365,000
- Box office: $2,279,000
- Themes: capitalist, paris, france, capitalism, white russian, jewelry, satire, fur, amused
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