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* TranslationConvention: Even in Russia they speak English with a Russian accent.
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* TranslationConvention: Even in Russia they speak English with a Russian accent. And the French characters speak English with an American accent.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: Before the film's release, WorldWarII broke out and ruined the premise. Hence, there's a title card which rather artfully tells us that the movie takes place before the war.
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* BannedInChina: Banned in the Soviet Union, for obvious reasons. Also, a U.S. re-release in the early 1940s was canceled on the grounds that the U.S.S.R. was now considered a WorldWarII ally.
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* BannedInChina: Banned in the Soviet Union, for obvious reasons. Also, a U.S. re-release in the early 1940s was canceled on the grounds that the U.S.S.R. was now considered a WorldWarII ally.
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* TotalitarianUtilitarian: Ninotchka's worldview in the beginning.
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* TheButlerDidIt: The butler indeed stole the jewelry.
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* TheButlerDidIt: Double subverted. The butler seemed suspicious from the beginning. Then the jewelry is gone and Leon becomes the prime suspect, but it turns out it was indeed stole the jewelry.butler.
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* ThirdActMisunderstanding: Averted.Subverted. When Ninotchka wakes from her late night out, the jewels are gone and the first person to suspect is of course Leon. However, the trope is abandoned immediately with the Duchess revealing that TheButlerDidIt.
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* InternalReveal: When Leon learns who Ninotchka really is.
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* ThirdActMisunderstanding: Averted. When Ninotchka wakes from her late night out, the jewels are gone and the first person to suspect is of course Leon. However, the trope is abandoned immediately with the Duchess revealing that [[TheButlerDidIt]].TheButlerDidIt.
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* FrenchMaid: [[RuleOfThree Three]] of them.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Who does Leon unknowingly [[MeetCute meet in the streets]] and [[LoveAtFirstSight immediately falls in love with]]? The adversary in his lawsuit.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Who does Leon unknowingly [[MeetCute meet in the streets]] and [[LoveAtFirstSight immediately falls fall in love with]]? The adversary in his lawsuit.
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* {{Lzherusskie}}: Ninotchka is played by Greta Garbo, who was Swedish. The actors playing the three diplomats were German. Creator/BelaLugosi (who played the commissar) was Hungarian.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Who does Leon unknowingly [[MeetCute meet in in the streets]] and [[LoveAtFirstSight immediately falls in love with]]? The adversary in his lawsuit.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Who does Leon unknowingly [[MeetCute meet in in the streets]] and [[LoveAtFirstSight immediately falls in love with]]? The adversary in his lawsuit.
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-->''Ninotschka'': Would you like to see my wound?\\
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''Leon'': I'd love to.\\
''Ninotschka'': "A Polish lancer. I was 16."
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-->'''Iranoff:''' ''Do you want to be alone, comrade?''
-->'''Ninotchka:''' ''No.''
-->'''Ninotchka:''' ''No.''
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-->'''Iranoff:''' ''Do you want to be alone, comrade?''
-->'''Ninotchka:'''comrade?''\\
'''Ninotchka:''' ''No.''
-->'''Ninotchka:'''
'''Ninotchka:''' ''No.''
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* VodkaDrunkenski: Whereever they go, the [[RuleOfThree three]] scoundrels can't hide their origins for long.
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* VodkaDrunkenski: Whereever Wherever they go, the [[RuleOfThree three]] scoundrels can't hide their origins for long.
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** Also Ninotchka in her IceQueen state.
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->"[[ThePurge The last mass trials]] have been a great success. [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans There are going to be fewer but better Russians.]]"
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Who does Leon unknowingly [[MeetCute meet in into in the streets]] and [[LoveAtFirstSight immediately falls in love with? with]]? The adversary in his lawsuit.
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''Ninotchka'' is a 1939 MetroGoldwynMayer RomanticComedy, directed by legendary director Ernst Lubitsch, co-written by Creator/BillyWilder and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, set in interbellum Paris and Moscow.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Who does Leon unknowingly [[MeetCute meet in into in the streets]] and immediately falls in love with? The adversary in his lawsuit.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Leon, but soon he wins Ninotchka over with his charm.
* DontExplainTheJoke: Leon falls into this trap with the cream versus milk joke.
* DontExplainTheJoke: Leon falls into this trap with the cream versus milk joke.
* GloriousMotherRussia: Most stereotypes are present in this movie.
* ScarSurvey:
-->''Ninotschka'': Would you like to see my wound?\\
''Leon'': I'd love to.\\
''Ninotschka'': "A Polish lancer. I was 16."
-->''Ninotschka'': Would you like to see my wound?\\
''Leon'': I'd love to.\\
''Ninotschka'': "A Polish lancer. I was 16."
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* UptightLovesWild, with a {{genderflip}} from the usual pattern.
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* TranslationConvention: Even in Russia they speak English with a Russian accent.
* UptightLovesWild, with a {{genderflip}} from the usualpattern.pattern.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: "The last mass trials have been a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians."
* VodkaDrunkenski: Whereever they go, the [[RuleOfThree three]] scoundrels can't hide their origins for long.
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* UptightLovesWild, with a {{genderflip}} from the usual
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: "The last mass trials have been a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians."
* VodkaDrunkenski: Whereever they go, the [[RuleOfThree three]] scoundrels can't hide their origins for long.
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* DeadpanSnarker: When Ninotchka asks Leon some odd questions, he gives some silly answers with a straight face.
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Ninotchka
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** That tagline was a CallBack to Garbo's first sound picture, ''Anna Christie'', which was marketed with the tagline "Garbo Talks!".
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'''''{{Ninotchka}}''''' is a 1939 MetroGoldwynMayer RomanticComedy, directed by legendary director Ernst Lubitsch, co-written by Creator/BillyWilder and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, set in interbellum Paris and Moscow.
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{{Trivia/Ninotchka}}
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* PlayingAgainstType: Garbo Laughs!
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* PlayingAgainstType: [[{{Tagline}} Garbo Laughs!Laughs!]]
** It's also one of the very few non-horror films Lugosi appeared in (though he's still pretty scary).
** It's also one of the very few non-horror films Lugosi appeared in (though he's still pretty scary).
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* BadBoss: Komissar Razinin is feared by pretty much all of his underlings, as he has the power to order deportations to [[PlaceWorseThanDeath Siberia]].
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* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Guy]]: The Russian commissar to whom Ninotchka reports is [[{{Creator/BelaLugosi}} Dracula]]. Buljanoff (Felix Bressart) is Greenberg from ''ToBeOrNotToBe''.
** Iranoff is [[{{Film/Stalag17}} Sergeant Schultz]]; or, if you prefer, [[{{Film/ANightAtTheOpera}} Gottlieb]].
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Ninotchka
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* DefrostingIceQueen: NinotchkaNinotchka.
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[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ninotchka_1357.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:"A Russian! I love Russians! Comrade, I've been fascinated by your five-year plan for the last fifteen years."]]
->"''The last mass trials have been a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.''"
-->-- {{Ninotchka}}
'''''{{Ninotchka}}''''' is a 1939 MetroGoldwynMayer RomanticComedy, directed by legendary director Ernst Lubitsch, co-written by Creator/BillyWilder and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, set in interbellum Paris and Moscow.
Three bungling Soviet diplomats aim to sell some Romanov diamonds to a Parisian jeweller to raise funds for the SovietUnion. Nina Ivanovna Yakushova, nicknamed "Ninotchka" (Garbo), an IceQueen diplomat, is sent over to help them after they make a mess of it, where she meets and falls in love with Parisian ''boulevardier'' and aristocrat Leon d'Algout (Douglas). In this she finds herself rivaled by the diamonds' original owner, the Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire), who wishes to retrieve both the jewels and Leon's affections. Swana manipulates Ninotchka into abandoning Leon in order to keep the jewels for Russia. Leon, however, does not accept the situation...
The story was later remade as the musical ''SilkStockings,'' with music by Cole Porter, which was [[RecursiveAdaptation itself adapted]] into a 1957 [[MetroGoldwynMayer MGM]] film with Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in the Douglas and Garbo parts, respectively.
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* [[BlondeRepublicanSexKitten Blonde Communist Sex Kitten]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Ninotchka and Leon change each other.
* CharacterTitle
* DefrostingIceQueen: Ninotchka
* GayParee
* TheHedonist: Leon, in the beginning.
* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Guy]]: The Russian commissar to whom Ninotchka reports is [[{{Creator/BelaLugosi}} Dracula]]. Buljanoff (Felix Bressart) is Greenberg from ''ToBeOrNotToBe''.
** Iranoff is [[{{Film/Stalag17}} Sergeant Schultz]]; or, if you prefer, [[{{Film/ANightAtTheOpera}} Gottlieb]].
* {{Lzherusskie}}: Ninotchka is played by Greta Garbo, who was Swedish. The actors playing the three diplomats were German. BelaLugosi (who played the commissar) was Hungarian.
* NoSenseOfHumor: Leon attempts to make Ninotchka laugh by telling her jokes, to absolutely no effect. [[spoiler:Then she sees him fall on his ass, and...]]
* PlayingAgainstType: Garbo Laughs!
* ShoutOut: In the form of a direct [[{{Subversion}} repudiation]] of Garbo's SignatureLine from her earlier hit, ''GrandHotel:''
-->'''Iranoff:''' ''Do you want to be alone, comrade?''
-->'''Ninotchka:''' ''No.''
** DoubleSubverted, though, when she later tells Leon's butler: "''Go to bed, Little Father -- we want to be alone.''"
* ShutUpKiss: Played with: Leon gives a long speech about love, and Ninotchka replies, "You're very talkative." Except he's the one who plants one on her right after that. However, it's played straight when he's about to give another long speech about love a few seconds later, and she stops him by kissing him.
* TheSpock: Ninotchka, in the beginning.
* UptightLovesWild, with a {{genderflip}} from the usual pattern.
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->"''The last mass trials have been a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.''"
-->-- {{Ninotchka}}
'''''{{Ninotchka}}''''' is a 1939 MetroGoldwynMayer RomanticComedy, directed by legendary director Ernst Lubitsch, co-written by Creator/BillyWilder and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, set in interbellum Paris and Moscow.
Three bungling Soviet diplomats aim to sell some Romanov diamonds to a Parisian jeweller to raise funds for the SovietUnion. Nina Ivanovna Yakushova, nicknamed "Ninotchka" (Garbo), an IceQueen diplomat, is sent over to help them after they make a mess of it, where she meets and falls in love with Parisian ''boulevardier'' and aristocrat Leon d'Algout (Douglas). In this she finds herself rivaled by the diamonds' original owner, the Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire), who wishes to retrieve both the jewels and Leon's affections. Swana manipulates Ninotchka into abandoning Leon in order to keep the jewels for Russia. Leon, however, does not accept the situation...
The story was later remade as the musical ''SilkStockings,'' with music by Cole Porter, which was [[RecursiveAdaptation itself adapted]] into a 1957 [[MetroGoldwynMayer MGM]] film with Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in the Douglas and Garbo parts, respectively.
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* [[BlondeRepublicanSexKitten Blonde Communist Sex Kitten]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Ninotchka and Leon change each other.
* CharacterTitle
* DefrostingIceQueen: Ninotchka
* GayParee
* TheHedonist: Leon, in the beginning.
* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Guy]]: The Russian commissar to whom Ninotchka reports is [[{{Creator/BelaLugosi}} Dracula]]. Buljanoff (Felix Bressart) is Greenberg from ''ToBeOrNotToBe''.
** Iranoff is [[{{Film/Stalag17}} Sergeant Schultz]]; or, if you prefer, [[{{Film/ANightAtTheOpera}} Gottlieb]].
* {{Lzherusskie}}: Ninotchka is played by Greta Garbo, who was Swedish. The actors playing the three diplomats were German. BelaLugosi (who played the commissar) was Hungarian.
* NoSenseOfHumor: Leon attempts to make Ninotchka laugh by telling her jokes, to absolutely no effect. [[spoiler:Then she sees him fall on his ass, and...]]
* PlayingAgainstType: Garbo Laughs!
* ShoutOut: In the form of a direct [[{{Subversion}} repudiation]] of Garbo's SignatureLine from her earlier hit, ''GrandHotel:''
-->'''Iranoff:''' ''Do you want to be alone, comrade?''
-->'''Ninotchka:''' ''No.''
** DoubleSubverted, though, when she later tells Leon's butler: "''Go to bed, Little Father -- we want to be alone.''"
* ShutUpKiss: Played with: Leon gives a long speech about love, and Ninotchka replies, "You're very talkative." Except he's the one who plants one on her right after that. However, it's played straight when he's about to give another long speech about love a few seconds later, and she stops him by kissing him.
* TheSpock: Ninotchka, in the beginning.
* UptightLovesWild, with a {{genderflip}} from the usual pattern.
