Ninotchka (1939)

Director:

Ernst Lubitsch

Writers:

Melchior Lengyel (story)
Charles Brackett (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

11 marzo 1940 (Denmark)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Frase comercial:

M-G-M's Laugh Riot !

Plot:

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Plot Keywords:

Singing | Gift | Parade | Eavesdropping | Playboy

Awards:

Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Greta Garbo as Secret "Cold War" Weapon

Cast

Greta Garbo	...	Nina Yakushova 'Ninotchka' Ivanoff
Melvyn Douglas	...	Léon - Comte d'Agoult
Ina Claire	...	Grand Duchess Swana
Bela Lugosi	...	Kommissar Razinin
Sig Ruman	...	Iranoff (as Sig Rumann)
Felix Bressart	...	Buljanoff
Alexander Granach	...	Kopalski
Gregory Gaye	...	Rakonin
Rolfe Sedan	...	Hotel Manager
Edwin Maxwell	...	Mercier
Richard Carle	...	Gaston

También conocida como:

Ninotchka (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

110 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Clasificación:

Finland:K-16 (1941) | USA:Approved (PCA #5494) | Germany:12 (DVD, 2006) | Finland:(Banned) (1940) | USA:Passed | Finland:(Banned) (1964) | Finland:K-15 (DVD) (2006) | Finland:S (cut) (1981) | Finland:K-18 (self applied) (2006) | New Zealand:PG | Argentina:13 | West Germany:6 | Portugal:M/6 | UK:U (video rating) | UK:A (original rating)

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivialidades:

Curiously enough, this was the very movie Arnold Schwarzenegger studied when he was trying to find his character for Red Heat (1988). The exercise - emulate Garbo - was recommended to him by his director Walter Hill.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the three negotiators are on the train platform looking for their comrade from Moscow, their positions change. This happens two times: when they see the man who is actually a Nazi and also when they meet Ninotchka.

Quotes:

Anna: Oh, that Burganoff. You never know if he's on his way to the washroom or the secret police.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Domicile conjugal (1970)

Greta Garbo as Secret "Cold War" Weapon

Ninotchka has been making a hit with audiences since she hit the screen in 1939. A fascinating, yet little known, "second life" of the film was played out during the Italian Elections of 1947-48. The U.S. was most anxious that the Communists not be elected and pulled out all the stops to prevent it. One was to approach MGM and request prints of Ninotchka - to be shown widely to working class audiences in Italy. Since no 16mm prints of the film yet existed, MGM Labs did "print downs" from the original nitrate negative. The resulting prints are astonishingly beautiful (I have one) and they estimate five million Italians viewed it and other propaganda films each week before the elections - in spite of the efforts of the Communists to prevent its showing. One pro-Communist worker said afterward "What licked us was Ninotchka!" (See "Killing Hope" by William Blum). To paraphrase Carl Denham in King Kong, once again "Beauty Killed The Beast!"