Description
Ninotchka DVD 1939 Ninocska / Directed by Ernst Lubitsch / Starring: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire / B&W Oldie
UPC 5999048906632
MADE IN HUNGARY
REGION 2 PAL DVD (BLACK & WHITE)
Audio: English mono, German mono, Spanish mono
Subtitles: Hungarian, English, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, English HOH, German HOH
Runtime: 110 minutes
English Summary:
Ninotchka is a 1939 American romantic comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. It was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Walter Reisch,[1] based on a screen story by Melchior Lengyel. Ninotchka is Greta Garbo's first full comedy, and her penultimate film. It is one of the first American films which, under the cover of a satirical, light romance, depicted the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin as being rigid and gray, in this instance comparing it with the free and sunny Parisian society of pre-war years.
Three Soviet agents, Iranoff (Sig Ruman), Buljanoff (Felix Bressart), and Kopalski (Alexander Granach), arrive in Paris to sell jewellery confiscated from the aristocracy during the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Count Alexis Rakonin (Gregory Gaye), a White Russian nobleman reduced to employment as a waiter in the hotel where the trio are staying, overhears details of their mission and informs the former Russian Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire) that her court jewels are to be sold by the three men. Her debonair paramour, Count Leon d'Algout (Melvyn Douglas) offers to help retrieve her jewellery before it is sold.
In their hotel suite, Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski negotiate with Mercier (Edwin Maxwell) a prominent Parisian jeweller, when Leon interrupts the meeting. He explains that the jewels are stolen and a petition has been filed preventing their sale or removal. Mercier withdraws his offer to purchase the jewellery until the lawsuit is settled.
The amiable, charming and cunning Leon treats the three Russians to an extravagant lunch, gets them drunk and easily wins their confidence and friendship. He sends a telegram to Moscow in their name suggesting a compromise.
Hungarian Summary:
Három szovjet ügynök néhány havi párizsi tartózkodás után annyira belemerül az éjszakai életbe, hogy megbízásáról - az emigráns nagyhercegnő, Szvana ékszereinek megszerzéséről - teljesen megfeledkezik. Az elvhű ügynöknő, Ninocska, aki mintha erre a feladatra született volna, megbízhatatlan elvtársainak előadást tart kötelességeikről. Ugyanakkor az előkelő párizsi hotelt a hazai mércéhez viszonyítva megborzad: egyheti hotelbeli tartózkodásért egy kolhoz hét tehenét kellene eladni. Noncska most maga kezd el az ékszerek után vadászni, s eközben beleszeret a házasságát titokban tartó Léon d'Algut grófba, aki titokban viszonyt tart fenn a nagyhercegnővel. A megtalált boldogság a hűvös szépséget féktelen asszonnyá változtatja, azonban választás elé állítja: vagy a grófot kapja meg, vagy az ékszereket. Ninocska kötelességtudóan az ékszerek mellett dönt. Az elválás azonban nem végleges: az életvidám ügynök-trió eközben Isztambulban lokált nyitott, és Léon gróf itt várja az ügynöknőjét.
Cast / Szereplők:
- Greta Garbo as Nina Ivanovna "Ninotchka" Yakushova
- Melvyn Douglas as Count Léon d'Algout
- Ina Claire as Grand Duchess Swana
- Sig Ruman as Iranoff
- Felix Bressart as Buljanoff
- Alexander Granach as Kopalski
- Bela Lugosi as Commissar Razinin
- Rolfe Sedan as Hotel Manager
- Gregory Gaye as Count Alexis Rakonin
- Edwin Maxwell as Mercier
- Richard Carle as Gaston
- Tamara Shayne as Anna (uncredited)
- George Tobias as Russian visa official (uncredited)
- Charles Judels as Pere Mathieu, the café owner (uncredited)
- Edwin Stanley as Soviet lawyer (uncredited)
Directed by | Ernst Lubitsch |
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Produced by | Ernst Lubitsch Sidney Franklin |
Screenplay by | Melchior Lengyel Charles Brackett Billy Wilder Walter Reisch |
Story by | Melchior Lengyel |
Starring | Greta Garbo Melvyn Douglas Ina Claire |
Music by | Werner R. Heymann |
Cinematography | William H. Daniels |
Edited by | Gene Ruggiero |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date
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November 9, 1939 |
Running time
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110 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |