The Housing Shortage (1920)
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.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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Ossi Oswalda as Frau |
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Victor Janson as Mann |
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Marga Köhler as Zimmervermieterin |
| Writing | Hanns Kräly | Writer |
| Production | Paul Davidson | Producer |
| Sound | Martin Knopf | Music |
| Writing | Ernst Lubitsch | Writer |
| Directing | Ernst Lubitsch | Director |