The plot of the lost film is divided into two acts. Ossi Oswalda and Victor Janson play two apartment seekers, while Marga Köhler is a landlady. The housing shortage is treated in sketch form and "in a joking manner [...] the real housing calamity", whereby "humorous aspects" are wrested from the "tragedy." Lubitsch and Kräly used a sketch in the film that they had written especially for Ossi Oswalda.
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Writing | Hanns Kräly | Writer |
Production | Paul Davidson | Producer |
Sound | Martin Knopf | Music |
Writing | Ernst Lubitsch | Writer |
Directing | Ernst Lubitsch | Director |