This film lampoons everything about American politics. Nothing escapes the barbs, jabs and spoofs in this witty, hilarious and zany satire. Only William Powell could keep a straight face through all of this. Candidates, political parties, pollsters, promoters, cronies, the press, advertising, and the gullible electorate all get a good going over in this masterful, riotously funny film.

Ninotchka is one of the funniest political satire movies ever made. It rakes the Soviet Union and Josef Stalin across the coals. When it came out in 1939, the many failures of Soviet communism and Stalin had been reported and were well known by the public. Many Stalin failures get a going over in this film – the five-year plan, the show trials and purge of Russian leaders, the forced famine that killed millions in Ukraine and elsewhere. And, former Russian nobility lived in exile around Europe. All of this, in the hands of Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas – with a top supporting cast, makes for one of the funniest films and satires, and a superb comedy-romance.