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Certificate U

Cast Greta Garbo Melvyn Douglas Ina Claire Bela Lugosi

Directors Ernst Lubitsch

Screenwriters Charles Brackett Billy Wilder Walter Reisch

Running Time 110 minutes

Ninotchka
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Plot
Assistant Soviet commissar Ninotchka arrives in Paris to see why Buljanoff, Ironoff and Kopalski are taking so long to sell Grand Duchess Swana's confiscated jewellery, only to be corrupted by Count Leon Dolga and the frivolous pleasures of capitalism.

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