Ninotchka

History can set difficult challenges for film makers, like, for example, dropping earth-shattering events in the middle of production and thus turning works with contemporary settings into period pieces. It requires a great deal of talent behind and in front of the camera for a film to overcome such adversity. *Ninotchka*, the 1939 comedy directed by Ernst Lubitsch, had all that and not only became popular and criti…