Film

Diesel

6.519431h 49m12Drama History

Age rating: 12
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht
Year: 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.

Top cast

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

Heinrich Marlow

Prof. Lüders

Heinrich Troxbömker

Krupp

Albert Florath

Arzt

Paul Westermeier

Fleischermeister

Franz Arzdorf

Führer im Maschinenpavillon

Roma Bahn

Segelschiff-Passagierin

Directed by

Gerhard Lamprecht

Written by

Gerhard Lamprecht, Richard H. Riedel, Frank Thieß

Produced by

Richard H. Riedel