The Housing Shortage
The Housing Shortage
1920, German. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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.
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- German
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- Released
- 6 February 1920
- Original title
- Die Wohnungsnot
- Country
- Germany
- Written by
- Hanns Kräly, Ernst Lubitsch
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The Housing Shortage (1920) was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and stars Ossi Oswalda, Victor Janson, Marga Köhler.