Ninotchka – 1939 – English – Comedy – Romance
Ninotchka – 1939 – English
Film directed in 1939 by Ernst Lubitsch, and starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Bela Lugosi, Ina Claire, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart, Alexander Granach, Rolfe Sedan, Gregory Gaye, Edwin Maxwell, Richard Carle…
Synopsis: Comrades Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski have been sent to Paris to obtain money for the Russian Government by selling the jewels confiscated from Grand Duchess Swana, who lives in the French capital. The three comrades settle into a luxury hotel while the French courts decide who is the true owner of the jewels. The Russian government sends Nina ‘Ninotchka’ Ivanovna Yakushova to fix things.