“Ninotchka” quotes

(1939)

Title Ninotchka
Year 1939
Director Ernst Lubitsch
Genre Comedy, Romance

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Plot – Few years before World War, Moscow's government sends three agents to Paris to sell the jewels of Grand Duchess Swana, but she opposes and tasks her lover Count Leon to prevent the selling. Leon makes the agents forget the jewels, introducing them to the Parisian delights. Ninotchka, a Soviet beautiful inspector, comes to Paris to control them.

All actors – Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart, Alexander Granach, Gregory Gaye, Rolfe Sedan, Edwin Maxwell, Richard Carle, Dorothy Adams, Monya Andre, Nino Bellini, Wilda Bennett, Symona Boniface, Frederika Brown, Emilie Cabanne, George Davis, Paul Ellis, Fred Farrell, Frank Fletcher, Bess Flowers, Mary Forbes, Jody Gilbert, Lawrence Grant, Jennifer Gray, Winifred Harris, Ray Hendricks, William Irving, Hans Joby, Charles Judels, Armand Kaliz, Ernst Lubitsch, Peggy Moran, Sandra Morgan, Lucille Pinson, Albert Pollet, Frank Reicher, Constantine Romanoff, Alexander Schoenberg, Harry Semels, Tamara Shayne, Florence Shirley, George Sorel, Edwin Stanley, Kay Stewart, George Tobias, Jacques Vanaire, Ellinor Vanderveer, Paul Weigel, Elizabeth Williams, Marek Windheim, Wolfgang Zilzer

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“- Count Leon d'Algout: You must forgive me when I seem a little old-fashioned. After all, I'm just a poor bourgeois.
- Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka: It's never too late to change. I used to belong to the petite bourgeoisie myself.”
Melvyn Douglas - Count Leon d'Algout
Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka
[Tag:changing, class, communism]
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“I'm so happy, I'm so happy! Nobody can be so happy without being punished.”
Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka
[Tag:happiness, punishment]

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