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.
- Released
- 1943-02-09
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Gerhard Lamprecht
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 from 5 votes
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