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.
Only a 13-minute fragment of the film, kept in the Bundesarchiv in Germany, is known to have survived.
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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