Intoxication (film)

Intoxication
Directed by	Ernst Lubitsch
Written by	August Strindberg (play) Hanns Kräly
Starring	Asta Nielsen Alfred Abel Grete Diercks
Cinematography	Karl Freund Theodor Sparkuhl
Production company
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

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