Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas star in this 1939 comedy, screened as a part of El amor es un clásico cycle by Filmoteca Canaria. The most hilarious scenes involve the title character in her humourless Bolshevik machine mode; humanised by her stay in the “City of Love”, Ninotchka does not seem that funny or fascinating anymore. Thankfully, the trio Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski provide comic relief throughout. Needless to say, the movie was banned in the Soviet Union.
The screenplay was co-written by Billy Wilder who, twentysomething years later, would recycle three Soviet Board of Trade agents in his One, Two, Three.
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