NINOTCHKA (1939)
Special Features: 85th Anniversary
"Garbo laughs!" And so will you, in Ernst Lubitsch's sparkling and mirthful romance, as stern Soviet special envoy Nina Ivanovna Yakushova (Greta Garbo) — call her Ninotchka — travels to Paris to sort out wayward emissaries Iranoff (Sig Rumann), Buljanoff (Felix Bressart) and Kopalski (Alexander Granach), who've bungled the sale of some confiscated White Russian jewelry and become corrupted by the decadent West. Suave Count Leon d'Algout (Melvyn Douglas) tries his darnedest to have the same effect on stone-faced Ninotchka but fails to crack her defenses — until he stumbles upon her funny bone. DIR/PROD Ernst Lubitsch; SCR Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Billy Wilder, from a story by Melchior Lengyel. U.S., 1939, b&w, 110 min. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 110 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, August 11, 2024
Genre: Romantic comedy
