Intoxication (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) [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 Karl Meinhardt. It was based on the play Brott och brott (There are crimes and crimes) 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]

Only a 13-minute fragment of the film, kept in Bundesarchive in Germany, is known to have survived. ^[3]

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

1. Eyman p.378
2. Hake p.38
3. Intoxication (1919) - Trivia - IMDb . Retrieved 2025-05-18– via www.imdb.com.

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