Ninotchka is a 1939 American romantic
comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and
director Ernst Lubitschand starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn
Douglas. It was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett,
and Walter Reisch, based on a screen story by Melchior
Lengyel. Ninotchka is Greta Garbo's first full comedy, her
penultimate film where she received a nomination for Best Actress. It is
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 gray, in this instance comparing it with the free and sunny
Parisian society of pre-war years.