Diesel

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.

• Gerhard LamprechtDirector
• Gerhard LamprechtWriter
• Richard H. RiedelWriter
• Frank ThießWriter
• Hans-Otto BorgmannOriginal Music Composer

• 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