The Spinning Ball
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	Messter Film
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	9 May 1919 (1919-05-09)
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.

• 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

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Töteberg, Michael. Das Ufa-Buch. Zweitausendeins, 1992.

• The Spinning Ball at IMDb

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