Movie

The Housing Shortage

Die Wohnungsnot

The plot of the lost film is divided into two acts. Ossi Oswalda and Victor Janson play two apartment seekers, while Marga Köhler is a landlady. The housing shortage is treated in sketch form and "in a joking manner [...] the real housing calamity", whereby "humorous aspects" are wrested from the "tragedy." Lubitsch and Kräly used a sketch in the film that they had written especially for Ossi Oswalda.

Screenplay

Hanns Kräly

Director

Ernst Lubitsch

Screenplay

Ernst Lubitsch

Status

Released

Release date

06/02/1920

Original language

German