Ninotchka (Nina Ivanovna Yakushova)
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Ninotchka is a 1939 romantic comedy film starring Greta Garbo as a stern Soviet envoy who falls in love with a Parisian count. The film was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and written by Billy Wilder, and is considered a classic of the genre.
Ninotchka: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi. A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Ninotchka, American romantic comedy film, released in 1939, that featured Greta Garbo in a rare nondramatic role and was marketed with the tagline “Garbo Laughs!” The comedy stars Garbo as Ninotchka, a stern, committed communist functionary sent to Paris to rein in diplomats sent there to sell
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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.
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A classic romantic comedy starring Greta Garbo as a stern Russian commissar who falls in love with a Parisian count. The web page lists and describes some of the film's memorable scenes, such as Ninotchka's arrival in Paris, her encounter with a hat, her meeting with Leon, and her cafe scene.
Ninotchka (1939) was the long-awaited, classic romantic comedy, with a clever and witty script and the magnificent presence of actress Greta Garbo in her first official American comedy (in her next-to-last film).
Ninotchka marked the first comedy role for Garbo, and her penultimate film; she received her third and final Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 1990, Ninotchka was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
The Ninotchka of the title is a Soviet envoy played by Garbo who is sent to Paris to ensure the sale of priceless jewellery confiscated from the aristocracy during the Russian Revolution. A trio of bumbling trade envoys oversee the operation, but this matter is complicated by the presence of a former Russian noblewoman, and rightful owner of the jewels, who is working in the hotel where the ...
With the time dragging on, a new no-nonsense Russian envoy, Ninotchka, arrives to take over the negotiations. She chastises her three colleagues for their obvious enjoyment of capitalistic society but soon finds herself charmed by Leon, at first not realizing he is involved with the jewels.
