The Housing Shortage (1920)
February 6, 1920Release Date
Plot.
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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silent film
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The Housing Shortage (German: Die Wohnungsnot) is a 1920 German silent short comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Victor Janson and Marga Köhler and Ossi Oswalda. It is now considered a lost film.