Intoxication (film) explained

Intoxication
Director:	Ernst Lubitsch
Studio:	Argus-Film
Runtime:	6 reels
Country:	Germany
Language:	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.^[1]

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

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.

Notes and References

1. Hake p.38