08/31/2026
35mm stills of NINOTCHKA which kicks off our September series Billy Wilder series BILLY WILDER: READY FOR HIS CLOSE UP
Playing this Tuesday 9/1 at 7pm.
Tickets available at the Box Office and on our website
Iranoff, Buljanoff and Kopalski are three bumbling Soviet agents in Paris, hoping to sell jewels their government confiscated from the aristocracy during the revolution. One problem: these three fools have fallen in love with the high life, embracing capitalism with both arms. Enter Ninotchka (Greta Garbo), the most Soviet of Soviet envoys, dressed in drab gray, loathing the West, eager to fund the revolution and head back to the fight. But there she meets the dashing, cunning, and charming Count Léon d’Algout (Mervyn Douglas), who sweeps her off her feet… and makes her laugh. NINOTCHKA, a Lubitsch film written by Wilder, is at once a scathing look at communism and a sly critique of the shallowness of Western aristocracy, and a thoroughly entertaining comedy.
