Intoxication (film)
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Directed by | Ernst Lubitsch |
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Release date | 1 October 1919[1] |
Running time | 6 reels |
Country | Germany |
Languages | Silent German intertitles |
Intoxication (German: Rausch) is a 1919 German silent drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Asta Nielsen, Alfred Abel and . It was based on the play by August Strindberg. Lubitsch was loaned out from UFA to the smaller for the production.[2]
Plot[]
Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him, and he winds up as a destitute before all is revealed.
Cast[]
- Asta Nielsen as Henriette Mauclerc
- Alfred Abel as Gaston, ein Schriftsteller
- Karl Meinhardt as Adolph
- Grete Diercks as Jeanne
- Rudolf Klein-Rhoden as Untersuchungsrichter
- Frida Richard as Haushälterin
- Marga Köhler as Henriettes Mutter
- Sophie Pagay as Mutter Kathrin
- Heinz Stieda as Der Abbé
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Eyman, Scott. Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
- Hake, Sabine. Passions and Deceptions: The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch. Princeton University Press, 1992.
External links[]
- Intoxication at IMDb
Categories:
- 1919 films
- German films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- German silent feature films
- 1919 drama films
- German drama films
- Films directed by Ernst Lubitsch
- German films based on plays
- German black-and-white films
- 1910s German film stubs