---
title: 'Intoxication (1919)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ernst Lubitsch'
released: '1919-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 60
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/intoxication-1919'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010612/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Intoxication (1919)

1919 · 60 min · Drama · Germany

Original title: Rausch

## Synopsis

Intoxication 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 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ernst Lubitsch](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernst-lubitsch)
- **Screenplay:** [Hanns Kräly](https://cinepixo.com/people/hanns-kraly)
- **Producer:** [Paul Otto](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-otto)
- **Director of Photography:** [Karl Freund](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-freund), [Theodor Sparkuhl](https://cinepixo.com/people/theodor-sparkuhl)

## Cast

- [Heinz Stieda](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinz-stieda)
- [Frida Richard](https://cinepixo.com/people/frida-richard)
- [Asta Nielsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/asta-nielsen)
- [Carl Meinhard](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-meinhard)
- [Sophie Pagay](https://cinepixo.com/people/sophie-pagay)
- [Grete Dierkes](https://cinepixo.com/people/grete-dierkes)
- [Rudolf Klein-Rhoden](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-klein-rhoden)
- [Grete Diercks](https://cinepixo.com/people/grete-diercks)
- [Alfred Abel](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-abel)

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