The Housing Shortage

  • February 1920
  • Comedy
  • Directed by

    Ernst Lubitsch,

    Starring

    Ossi Oswalda,

    Victor Janson,

    Marga Köhler,

    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.