Ninotchka (1939)

Directors

Ernst Lubitsch

Cast

Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart, Alexander Granach, Gregory Gaye, Bela Lugosi, Rolfe Sedan, Edwin Maxwell, Richard Carle

The story

thumb|right|Melvyn Douglas, Greta Garbo and Richard Carle thumb|right|Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski, three agents from the Soviet Board of Trade, arrive in Paris to sell jewelry confiscated from the aristocracy during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Count Alexis Rakonin, 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 that her family jewels are to be sold by the three men. Swana's debonair paramour, Count Léon d'Algout, offers to help retrieve the jewelry before it is sold.

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