Diesel (1943)

Name: Diesel
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1943-02-09
Duration: 109 min
Cast: Willy Birgel, Hilde Weissner, Paul Wegener, Josef Sieber, Arthur Schröder

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.

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Released 1943-02-09 · 109 min · Drama, History

Directed by Gerhard Lamprecht

Cast

Willy Birgel as Rudolf Diesel
Hilde Weissner as Martha Diesel, seine Frau
Paul Wegener as Direktor Buz
Josef Sieber as Martin
Arthur Schröder as Lucien Vogel
Erich Ponto as Theodor Diesel
Hilde von Stolz as Frau von Lorrenz
Hubert von Meyerinck as Herr von Lorrenz
Werner Pledath as Prof. Linde
Herbert Gernot as Krumper
Walter Janssen as Prof. Barnickel
Karl-Heinz Peters as Ingenieur Scheuermann
Heinrich Marlow as Prof. Lüders
Heinrich Troxbömker as Krupp
Albert Florath as Arzt