Trois, deux, un - bonne annee! FilmScene's annual countdown to the New Year on Paris time includes champagne and French desserts!
Film begins at 5pm. Join us an hour early at 4pm for our special reception in the Chauncey lobby.
"Delicate flirtation and political satire made into a perfect whole, and a reminder of skills that studio writers have largely lost."—Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out
In 1939 when the Soviet government sends three dour diplomats to Paris to sell former Imperial jewels, the gems' former owner, Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire), asks her dapper boyfriend, Count Leon (Melvyn Douglas), to retrieve her property. With Leon's help, the three Soviets quickly succumb to the temptations of capitalist decadence. To rescue the mission, the Soviets send their most incorruptible operative, Nina Ivanovna Yakushova (Greta Garbo) aka Ninotchka. Now as Count Leon strives to soften the beautiful but seemingly cold-hearted commissar, he's the first to lose his heart—by falling in love with Ninotchka—in this classic romantic comedy.
