Intoxication (film)

Intoxication
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;
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.^[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

^ 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.