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The Housing Shortage
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The Housing Shortage

1920
Directed byErnst Lubitsch
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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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Ossi OswaldaFrauVictor JansonMannMarga KöhlerZimmervermieterin
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Comedy
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