This one is neither crude clowning nor crude prejudice, but a literate and knowingly directed satire which lands many a shrewd crack about phony Five Year Plans, collective farms, Communist jargon and pseudo-scientific gab.
Overview
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Director and cast
- Ernst Lubitsch Director
- Greta Garbo as Sonderbeauftragte Genossin Ninotschka Yakushova
- Melvyn Douglas as Graf Leon D'Algout
- Ina Claire as Swana
- Sig Ruman as Iranoff
- Bela Lugosi as Commissar Razinin
- Felix Bressart as Buljanoff
- Alexander Granach Cast
- Gregory Gaye Cast
- Rolfe Sedan Cast
- Edwin Maxwell Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Ninotchka is delicate flirtation and political satire made into a perfect whole, and a reminder of skills that studio writers have largely lost.
Selection of Ernst Lubitsch to pilot Garbo in her first light performance in pictures proves a bull's-eye.
The satire may be mostly a matter of easy contrasts, but the lovers inhabit a world of elegance and poise that is uniquely and movingly Lubitsch's.
One of the sprightliest comedies of the year.
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