Ninotchka is a American Film carried out by Ernst Lubitsch, left on the screens in 1939.

Synopsis

Three Soviet agents of the Russian Edge off Trade , Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski, are sent to Paris to sell jewels, 40 parts confiscated with the aristocrats during the Russian Révolution. They meet there the count Leon d' Algout, elected by the Large Swana Duchess who wishes to recover her jewels present in the batch. The USSR then sends a special correspondent faithful to the communist dogma to give the three men in the right way, Ninotchka Yakouchova. Rigid and lasts, it arrives at Paris with the intention to conclude the sale and to bring back the three men to Russia. The count Leon d' Algout, initially decided to fight it by all the means, falls in love with it and tries to make it succumb to the Parisian charm.

Comment

Launched by the slogan “ Garbo laughs ” ( Garbo Laughs ), Ninotchka is the first comedy of Greta Garbo and its last but one film. It is one of first American films, under outside of light and romantic comedy, to dare an open criticism of the Soviet Union under Stalin. It turns in derision the Soviet system, depicts like a system of shortage, rigid and sad, by comparing it with the Parisian, light company and courtesan. Left at the United States in 1939, it arrived on the screens to Europe during the Second world war, and was a considerable success.

Data sheet

• Title: Ninotchka
• Realization: Ernst Lubitsch
• Scenario: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch, according to the part of Nickel silver Lengyel
• Production: Ernst Lubitsch, Franklin Sidney
• Photography: William H. Daniels
• Original music: Werner R. Heymann
• Decorations: Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duel, Edwin B. Willis
• Costumes: Adrian
• Assembly: Gene Ruggiero
• Make-up: Jack Dawn
• Coming out date: October 6th 1939 (the first USA)
• Country of origin: the United States
• Kind: comedy
• Format: Black and white - 1,37:1 - its monophonic - 35 mm

Distribution

• Greta Garbo : Nina Ivanovna Yakouchova, known as Ninotchka
• Douglas Melvyn: Count Leon d' Algout
• Ina Claire: Large Duchess Swana
• Sig Ruman: Michael Simonavich Iranoff
• Felix Bressart: Buljanoff
• Alexander Granach : Kopalski
• Bleated Lugosi: Police chief Razinin
• Tamara Shayne: Anna, the joint tenant of Ninotchka to Moscow

Distinctions

• Nominations with the Oscars 1939 (allotted in 1940): better film, better actress, better original history, and Oscar of the best scenario, but no statuette was allotted to him.

Around film

• the success of film gave place in 1957 to a Remake in the form of a musical comedy: the Beautiful one of Moscow ( Silk Stockings ) of Rouben Mamoulian, with Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse.
• the film was registered with the “National Film Registry” of the Bibliothèque of the Congress in 1990.

Extracts

• "The apparment will follows your convenvience drank I doubt it will follows your convictions. Royal It is the suite" The person in charge of the Clarence Hotel to the envoys of Moscow
• " That' S year idea goal who said we were to cuts year idea" Communist envoys between them
• " Give Comrades, comrades, don' T let in so quickly. After all we cuts to uphold prestige Russia off. All right, let' S uphold it for another 10 minutes" The communist envoys between them during the negotiation of the sale of the jewels
• Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski seek the special correspondent of Moscow at the station and believe to find it when they see a man equipped like them and with the physique resembling the stereotype of Soviet. They do not have time to join it that they see it greeting of a " Heil Hitler" that which came to seek it.
• At the station, scene between Ninothcka and the carrier: " What want C you? " " Does May I cut your bags Madam? " " Why? " " He has carrying, He wants to curry them" " Why? Why should you curry other people' S bags" " Well, that' S my business madam" " That' S No business, that' S social injustice" " That depend one the tip"
• " What are the news from Moscow? " " Good, very good. The last farmhouse trial were has great success. There is going to Be fewer goal better Russians".

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