The Spinning Ball (1919 film)

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The Spinning Ball
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Scene from a film
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
Production
company
Distributed by UFA
Release date
  • 9 May 1919 (1919-05-09)
Running time
66 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent
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.

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It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin.

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  1. Das Ufa-Buch p. 50.

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