Silk Stockings

An “ode to the tractor”, silk stockings and a dutiful Soviet officer! Against the backdrop of the Cold War, this crude mixture gives rise to a hot love story between Moscow and Paris that transcends all internal and external boundaries.
Directed by Max Hopp, an actor known from theater, film and television, Paris becomes the dream backdrop for two lovers, who are known from TV series such as Crime scene or Wilsberg well-known Austrian actor Michael Rotschopf shows off all his charm as an American artist’s agent, while musical specialist Koen Schoots provides the right groove on the podium of the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra.

Soviet officer Nina Yaschenko, known as Ninotschka, is beautiful, brittle and doesn’t think much of things that aren’t practical.
As a deeply committed communist, she is sent from Moscow to Paris to bring the renegade Soviet national composer Boroff back home.
He is in danger of succumbing to the charm of the West and the advertising skills of American artist agent Steve Canfield, who wants to incorporate Boroff’s “Ode to the Tractor” into a movie as a musical fillet piece.
Initially principled, Ninotchka finally succumbs to Canfield’s advances in the city of love.
Gradually, however, she is plagued by remorse. Moreover, Canfield’s capitalist view of the world and her communist one seem incompatible.
She travels back to Moscow. Canfield, however, has already bought her 365 pairs of valuable silk stockings out of love – one for every day of the year. Determined, he follows her to the Soviet Union …

The opportunity to set Ernst Lubitsch’s film as an homage to Paris must have seemed like a stroke of fate to Cole Porter, as the American musical composer
had a lifelong soft spot for the French metropolis, where he had also met his own wife.
Shimmering and shimmering like silk stockings, Cole Porter’s songs blend the great Broadway sound with the Russian and French musical languages.