The young Marie, daughter of a Thuringian glassblower, violates all traditions after the death of mother and father. To feed herself and her sisters, she became the first female glassblower in the small town of Lauscha in 1890, and her artful glassy Christmas balls find themselves in America.。A portrait of a formidable personality from the history of the cinema-the discoverer of Marlene Dietrich and the maker of The Blue Angel, The Scarlet Empress, Shanghai Express, Morocco, I, Claudius.。