The Housing Shortage

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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.

Cast: Ossi Oswalda, Victor Janson, Marga Köhler

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Genres: Comedy

Cast

Ossi Oswalda

Frau

Victor Janson

Mann

Marga Köhler

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