''The Glass Ball'' (german: Die gläserne Kugel) is a 1937 German

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directed by Peter Stanchina and starring

Albrecht Schoenhals Albrecht Moritz James Karl Schoenhals (7 March 1888 – 4 December 1978) was a German film actor. Life Born Moritz James Karl, Albrecht Schoenhals was the son of the German General upper physician Gustav Schoenhals (1855-1930) and an English ...

Sabine Peters Sabine Peters (29 December 1912 – 10 October 1982) was a German film actress. Peters emerged as a film actress during the Nazi era, and played largely supporting roles. She was one of the companions of the title in the 1938 Ingrid Bergman vehi ...

, and

Hilde von Stolz Hilde von Stolz (8 July 1903 in Segesvár, Nagy-Küküllő County, Austria-Hungary, now Romania – 16 December 1973 in Berlin) was an Austrian-German actress. Von Stolz attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and made her debut at the local ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p. 193 The film's sets were designed by the

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Otto Guelstorff Otto Guelstorff (1878 1959) was a German art director.Fox p. 257 He worked on around fifty films during his career. Selected filmography * ''Hell of Love'' (1926) * '' Silence in the Forest'' (1929) * '' Rustle of Spring'' (1929) * '' Heilige ...

and

Hans Minzloff Hans Minzloff (1890–1962) was a German art director.Gemünden p.171 Selected filmography * ''Our Heavenly Bodies'' (1925) * '' Struggle for the Soil'' (1925) * ''Carnival Magic'' (1927) * ''The Insurmountable'' (1928) * ''The Circus Princess'' ...

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took place in

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and

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in late 1936.

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* 1937 films 1937 drama films German drama films Films of Nazi Germany 1930s German-language films Bavaria Film films German black-and-white films 1930s German films {{1930s-Germany-film-stub