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1919 film

Intoxication

Directed by	Ernst Lubitsch
Written by	August Strindberg (play) Hanns Kräly
Starring	Asta Nielsen Alfred Abel Karl Meinhardt Grete Diercks
Cinematography	Karl Freund Theodor Sparkuhl
Production company	Argus-Film
Release date	1 October 1919 (1919-10-01)
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 Karl Meinhardt. It was based on the play Brott och brott (There are crimes and crime) by August Strindberg, which was later remade as the 1928 film Sin. Lubitsch was loaned out by UFA to the smaller Argus-Film for the production.

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

Eyman p.378
Hake p.38

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

v t e Films directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Feature films	Shoe Palace Pinkus (1916) When Four Do the Same (1917) Die Augen der Mumie Ma (1918) Ich Möchte Kein Mann Sein (1918) The Toboggan Cavalier (1918) The Ballet Girl (1918) Carmen (1918) The Rosentopf Case (1918) Intoxication (1919) The Doll (1919) The Swabian Maiden (1919) My Wife, the Movie Star (1919) The Oyster Princess (1919) Meyer from Berlin (1919) Madame DuBarry (1919) Romeo and Juliet in the Snow (1920) Sumurun (1920) Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1920) Anna Boleyn (1920) The Wildcat (1921) The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) The Flame (1923) Rosita (1923) The Marriage Circle (1924) Three Women (1924) Forbidden Paradise (1924) Kiss Me Again (1925) Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) So This Is Paris (1926) The Honeymoon Express (1926) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) The Patriot (1928) Eternal Love (1929) The Love Parade (1929) Monte Carlo (1930) Paramount on Parade (co-director) (1930) The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) Broken Lullaby (1932) One Hour with You (1932) Trouble in Paradise (1932) Design for Living (1933) The Merry Widow (1934) Angel (1937) Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) Ninotchka (1939) The Shop Around the Corner (1940) That Uncertain Feeling (1941) To Be or Not to Be (1942) Heaven Can Wait (1943) A Royal Scandal (1945) Cluny Brown (1946) That Lady in Ermine (1948)
Short films	I Don't Want to Be a Man (1918) The Housing Shortage (1920) If I Had a Million (segment "The Clerk")

Films directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Feature films

Shoe Palace Pinkus (1916)
When Four Do the Same (1917)
Die Augen der Mumie Ma (1918)
Ich Möchte Kein Mann Sein (1918)
The Toboggan Cavalier (1918)
The Ballet Girl (1918)
Carmen (1918)
The Rosentopf Case (1918)
Intoxication (1919)
The Doll (1919)
The Swabian Maiden (1919)
My Wife, the Movie Star (1919)
The Oyster Princess (1919)
Meyer from Berlin (1919)
Madame DuBarry (1919)
Romeo and Juliet in the Snow (1920)
Sumurun (1920)
Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1920)
Anna Boleyn (1920)
The Wildcat (1921)
The Loves of Pharaoh (1922)
The Flame (1923)
Rosita (1923)
The Marriage Circle (1924)
Three Women (1924)
Forbidden Paradise (1924)
Kiss Me Again (1925)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
So This Is Paris (1926)
The Honeymoon Express (1926)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
The Patriot (1928)
Eternal Love (1929)
The Love Parade (1929)
Monte Carlo (1930)
Paramount on Parade (co-director) (1930)
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
Broken Lullaby (1932)
One Hour with You (1932)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Design for Living (1933)
The Merry Widow (1934)
Angel (1937)
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Ninotchka (1939)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
A Royal Scandal (1945)
Cluny Brown (1946)
That Lady in Ermine (1948)

Short films

I Don't Want to Be a Man (1918)
The Housing Shortage (1920)
If I Had a Million (segment "The Clerk")

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