The Housing Shortage
Overview
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.
About The Housing Shortage (1920)
Released in 1920, The Housing Shortage is a comedy film from Projektions-AG Union (Germany). It was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and written by Hanns Kräly and Ernst Lubitsch. The cast is led by Ossi Oswalda, Victor Janson and Marga Köhler.
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