Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Music
Music by Hans-Otto Borgmann
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Georg Krause
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Gerhard LamprechtWriter
- Richard H. RiedelWriter
- Frank ThießWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 9, 1943
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
Production
Cast
Willy BirgelRudolf Diesel
Hilde WeissnerMartha Diesel, seine Frau
Paul WegenerDirektor Buz
Josef SieberMartin- Arthur SchröderLucien Vogel
Erich PontoTheodor Diesel
Hilde von StolzFrau von Lorrenz
Hubert von MeyerinckHerr von Lorrenz
Werner PledathProf. Linde- Herbert GernotKrumper
Walter JanssenProf. Barnickel- Karl-Heinz PetersIngenieur Scheuermann
- Heinrich MarlowProf. Lüders
- Heinrich TroxbömkerKrupp
Albert FlorathArzt
Paul WestermeierFleischermeister
Franz ArzdorfFührer im Maschinenpavillon
Roma BahnSegelschiff-Passagierin
Leo Peukertalter Schlepperkapitän
Eduard WenckSchiffsheizer
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