Diesel (1943)
A German wartime biography of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine. The movie links the importance of the engine to the war by starting the movie with newsreel clips of German Navy U-boats in action.
- Date of release
- 1943-02-09
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Director
- Gerhard Lamprecht
Casting
- Willy Birgel — Rudolf Diesel
- Hilde Weissner — Martha Diesel, seine Frau
- Paul Wegener — Direktor Buz
- Josef Sieber — Martin
- Arthur Schröder — Lucien Vogel
- Erich Ponto — Theodor Diesel
- Hilde von Stolz — Frau von Lorrenz
- Hubert von Meyerinck — Herr von Lorrenz
- Werner Pledath — Prof. Linde
- Herbert Gernot — Krumper
- Walter Janssen — Prof. Barnickel
- Karl-Heinz Peters — Ingenieur Scheuermann
Interesting facts
Diesel is a 1942 German biographical film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Willy Birgel, Hilde Weissner, and Paul Wegener. It portrays the life of Rudolf Diesel, the German inventor of the diesel engine. It was one of a series of prestigious biopics made in Nazi Germany portraying genius inventors or artists struggling against the societies in which they live. The film was based on a biography by Eugen Diesel, one of Diesel's children.
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