The read
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 90% of the 231 1930s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
450 audience votes
Key crew
- Werner R. HeymannOriginal Music Composer
- Walter ReischScreenplay
- Ernst LubitschDirector
- Charles BrackettScreenplay
- Billy WilderScreenplay
Cast
- Greta GarboNina "Ninotchka" Ivanovna Yakushova
- Melvyn DouglasCount Leon d'Algout
- Ina ClaireGrand Duchess Swana
- Bela LugosiCommissar Razinin
- Sig RumanComrade Iranoff
- Felix BressartComrade Buljanoff
- Alexander GranachComrade Kopalski
- Gregory GayeCount Alexis Rakonin
- Rolfe SedanHotel Manager
- Edwin MaxwellMercier
- Richard CarleGaston
- George DavisPorter at Railroad Station (uncredited)
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Themes
capitalistparis, francecapitalismwhite russianjewelrysatirefuramused