(110 min; 1939; b/w; English)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch

With Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire

Recipient of the Audience Award and Golden Train Award for Best Screenplay, Faro Island Film Festival 1939; NBR Award for Top Ten Films and Best Acting, National Board of Review, USA 1939; and Winner of the National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1990. A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.The film is known for being 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 grey, in this instance comparing it with the free and sunny Parisian society of pre-war years through a delightful affair, full of sparkling wit and wisecracks that blends pratfalls and a sophisticated comedy of manners.

The film can be accessed on either of the two links listed below:

https://archive.org/details/ninotchka-1939-3e-3-msf-6-islk
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px_302VVxKQ