The Spinning Ball (1919)

Original title

Die rollende Kugel

Directed by

Rudolf Biebrach

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Germany

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man struggles with his obsession for gambling and the chaos it brings into his life. The story follows how this compulsion affects his relationships and his own sense of self.

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What happens

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. It is an adaptation of the 1866 novel The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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