The Spinning Ball (1919 film)
The Spinning Ball | |
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German | Die rollende Kugel |
Directed by | Rudolf Biebrach |
Written by | Henrik Galeen |
Based on | The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Produced by | Oskar Messter |
Starring | Ernst Hofmann Olga Limburg Martha Angerstein-Licho |
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Distributed by | UFA |
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Running time | 66 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Languages | Silent German intertitles |
The Spinning Ball (German: Die rollende Kugel) is a 1919 German silent drama film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Ernst Hofmann, Olga Limburg and Martha Angerstein-Licho.[1] It is an adaptation of the 1866 novel The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin.
Cast[]
- Ernst Hofmann as Vanja
- Martha Angerstein-Licho as Pauline Sagorianskij
- Rudolf Biebrach as General Sagorianskij
- Olga Limburg as Blanche
- Georg H. Schnell as Marquis de Grillet
References[]
- ^ Das Ufa-Buch p. 50.
Bibliography[]
- Bock, Hans-Michael & Töteberg, Michael. Das Ufa-Buch. Zweitausendeins, 1992.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1919 films
- German films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- German silent feature films
- Films directed by Rudolf Biebrach
- UFA GmbH films
- German black-and-white films
- German drama films
- 1919 drama films
- Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
- Films based on The Gambler
- Films set in Germany
- Films set in the 1860s
- 1910s German film stubs