Ninotchka
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch
USA, 1939, English, 110mins, DCP
Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire
Garbo laughs! In her penultimate screen performance, the somber Swedish starlet turned her hand to comedy, and was rewarded with her fourth Academy Award nomination. One of the first Hollywood films to depict Stalin’s authoritarian regime in a political satire, Ninotchka stars Garbo as the eponymous buttoned-down Soviet envoy, who travels to Paris to oversee the sale of confiscated aristocratic jewellery. There she meets a smooth-talking Count tasked with retrieving the jewels, and Ninotchka has to re-evaluate everything she used to detest, as she succumbs to his charms and the decadent pleasures of capitalism.
Academy Awards: 4 nominations including Best Picture and Best Actress
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Cancelled 2022-01-22 (Sat)
20:10Cancelled 2022-02-26 (Sat)
14:45
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Film Archive
K11 Art House
The Metroplex
Festival Grand Cinema
the sky
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
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EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
The Grand Cinema
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Cine Moko
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Full House
Introduction