With Greta Garbo proving her comedy chops in the twilight of her career, Ninotchka is a can't-miss classic. Read critic reviews
Ninotchka
1939, Comedy, 1h 50m
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A no-nonsense diplomat of the Soviet Union, Nina Ivanovna "Ninotchka" Yakushova (Greta Garbo) arrives in Paris to ensure the sale of jewels seized during the Russian Revolution. Meanwhile, carefree bachelor Count Leon d'Algout (Melvyn Douglas) attempts to intercept the valuables on behalf of their former owner, the Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire). Despite their conflicting allegiances, the icy Ninotchka soon warms to Leon's charms, reluctantly going against her better judgment.
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Genre: Comedy
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Original Language: English
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Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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Producer: Ernst Lubitsch
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Distributor: Loew's Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.
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Sound Mix: Mono
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Somehow I'm taken aback by how quickly Garbo's character changes from one scene to the next (which is in fact coherent with the film's obvious anti-Sovietism and casual sexism), but her magnetic presence and the excellent dialogue make everything an enormous pleasure to watch.
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Its not false advertising to claim that "Garbo laughs" in this film (it happens on more than one occasion) but she's also endlessly charming and surprisingly funny.
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The sale of an exiled countess's diamonds brings a Soviet investigator to Paris where she falls her rival. Garbo laughs! Greta Garbo delivers a phenomenal performance as the eponymous character in this romantic satire/farce. Garbo's cyborg character softens about forty-five minutes into the film, and from then on she becomes old cinema's definition of charming, charismatic female lead. Melvyn Douglas is a fine leading man, and the three Russian stooges provide good comic relief. The film is typical Cold War-era fare -- maybe a little more complex as Leon actually reads Das Kapital, but that only sets up the butler's capitalistic retort to Communist ideology. But the film's strength is that it stays focused on the human relationship and the change in the character rather than on the what Ninotchka's conversion means as a political statement. Overall, this is a charming film that keeps its political message in the background.
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A charming comedy with some really great dialogue in some of the scenes.
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