The Housing Shortage
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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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Ernst Lubitsch Director · Hanns Kräly Writer
First release February 6, 1920 · Produced in Germany · Production Universum Film (UFA)
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Projektions-AG Union
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Universum Film (UFA)
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Germany
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Original title
Die Wohnungsnot
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Germany · February 6, 1920
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