Ninotchka Comments

  • Houston 2022-08-10 19:07:52

    The details are endless, but the whole is limping. Liu Bieqian's comedy [Ninochka] is full of wishful thinking, so it makes people taste the sour taste that shouldn't be there. Even the most absurd comedy must have something "real", and the movie's bullying mockery of the Soviet Union is based on the rich's contempt for the poor, not on its fascist attributes. At the end of the movie, it says: With money, you can eat and drink, enjoy the flowers and see the snow; with money, you are qualified...

  • Caterina 2022-08-10 18:54:06

    The female communist cadres in Moscow were thus corrupted by the lover of the capital of Paris! "Ninotchka, it's midnight! One half of Paris is making love to the other half."...

  • Chet 2022-08-10 15:48:08

    The romantic story of the capitalist dandy corrupting the socialist female cadres simply blacked out the Soviet Union. Hats, eggs, underwear... the settings of various small objects are very detailed. Garbo performs mature works, showing the transformation of a female Red Army soldier relatively...

Extended Reading
  • Felix 2022-10-24 21:15:50

    wry smile?

    This is the 100th anniversary collection of Garbo, the last movie I watched.

        Liu Bieqian’s comedy technique is indeed superior. Although the film is a bitterly mocking of the rigidity, dogma and violation of human nature of the communist revolution through a process in which a "Bolshevik lady"...

  • Ferne 2022-09-08 05:10:06

    Peace ambassador

    As soon as the Soviet female cadre played by Garbo appeared on the stage, she confessed everything she had seen in Paris, a decadent bourgeois paradise. This unsmiling, disdainful, and scornful proletarian cadre of the capitalist world is all about the great work of liberating all mankind and...

Ninotchka quotes

  • Leon: Where shall we begin?

    Ninotchka: I will start with you.

    Leon: Excellent! Now, let's see, I'm 35 years old, just over six feet tall, and weigh 182 pounds, stripped.

  • Ninotchka: What do you do for mankind?

    Leon: For mankind? Yes, eh, not so much, for mankind. But, for womankind my record isn't quite so bleak.

    Ninotchka: You are something we do not have in Russia.

    Leon: Thank you.

    Ninotchka: That's why I believe in the future of my country.