Diesel (1942 film)

1942 film

Diesel

Directed by| Gerhard Lamprecht
Written by|

* Eugen Diesel (book)
* Richard H. Riedel
* Frank Thieß
* Gerhard Lamprecht

Produced by| Richard H. Riedel
Starring|

* Willy Birgel
* Hilde Weissner
* Paul Wegener
* Josef Sieber

Cinematography| Georg Krause
Edited by| Wolfgang Wehrum
Music by| Hans-Otto Borgmann

Production
company

UFA

Distributed by| UFA

Release date

* 13 November 1942 (1942-11-13)

Running time

| 109 minutes
Country| Nazi Germany
Language| German
Budget| 2,349,000 ℛ︁ℳ︁

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Diesel is a 1942 German biographical film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Willy Birgel, Hilde Weissner, and Paul Wegener. It portrays the life of Rudolf Diesel, the German inventor of the diesel engine.[1] It was one of a series of prestigious biopics made in Nazi Germany portraying genius inventors or artists struggling against the societies in which they live. The film was based on a biography by Eugen Diesel, one of Diesel's children.

It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by art director Erich Kettelhut. Made on a large budget of 2,349,000 ℛ︁ℳ︁, the film was a popular box office success and recouped its production costs.

## Cast

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* Willy Birgel as Rudolf Diesel
* Hilde Weissner as Martha Diesel
* Paul Wegener as Director Buz
* Josef Sieber as Martin
* Arthur Schröder as Lucian Vogel
* Hilde von Stolz as Mrs. von Lorrenz
* Erich Ponto Theodor Diesel
* Werner Pledath as Prof. Carl von Linde
* Herbert Gernot as Krumper
* Walter Janssen as Professor Barnickel
* Hans Schulz as Big Worker
* Heinz Evelt as Small Worker
* Heinrich Marlow as Prof. Lüders
* Karl-Heinz Peters as Engineer Scheuermann
* Albert Florath as The Physician
* Otto F. Henning as Gilhausen
* Viggo Larsen as a Professor
* Leo Peukert as an Old Tugboat Captain
* Heinrich Troxbömker as Krupp
* Paul Westermeier as The Master Butcher
* Eduard Bornträger as Member of the Krupp Board
* Michael Braun [de] as Rudolf Diesel as a 12-year-old
* Josef Dahmen as Machinist at Buz
* Gerhard Dammann as a Furniture Packer
* Angelo Ferrari as Visitor in Krupp's Front Room
* Hellmuth Passarge as Machinist at Buz
* Karl Platen as the Office Employee in the Outer Room at Krupp
* Gustav Püttjer as a Furniture Packer
* Babsi Schultz-Reckewell as Luise
* Rudolf Vones as Machinist at Buz
* Franz Zimmermann as an Officer, Guest at Reception
* Klaus Pohl as Office Employee at Buz
* Hubert von Meyerinck as Mr. von Lorrenz
* Hadrian Maria Netto
* Hermann Pfeiffer
* Roma Bahn
* Robert Forsch
* Hildegard Grethe
* Karl Hannemann
* Ellen Krug
* Olga Limburg
* Ilse Stobrawa
* Franz Weber

## References

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1. ^ Fox, p. 100.

## Bibliography

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* Fox, Jo (2007) [2006]. Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema. Oxford: Berg. ISBN 978-1-85973-896-2.

## External links

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* Diesel at IMDb

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Films directed by Gerhard Lamprecht

* The Graveyard of the Living (1921)
* The Buddenbrooks (1923)
* The House Without Laughter (1923)
* And Yet Luck Came (1923)
* The Other Woman (1924)
* The Hanseatics (1925)
* Slums of Berlin (1925)
* Children of No Importance (1926)
* People to Each Other (1926)
* Sister Veronika (1927)
* The Catwalk (1927)
* Under the Lantern (1928)
* The Old Fritz (1928)
* The Man with the Frog (1929)
* Different Morals (1931)
* Between Night and Dawn (1931)
* Emil and the Detectives (1931)
* The Black Hussar (1932)
* Spies at Work (1933)
* What Men Know (1933)
* Just Once a Great Lady (1934)
* A Day Will Come (1934)
* Princess Turandot (1934)
* Turandot, Princess of China (1935)
* The Higher Command (1935)
* One Too Many on Board (1935)
* A Strange Guest (1936)
* Madame Bovary (1937)
* The Yellow Flag (1937)
* The Gambler (1938)
* Woman in the River (1939)
* The Girl at the Reception (1940)
* Clarissa (1941)
* Diesel (1942)
* The Noltenius Brothers (1945)
* Somewhere in Berlin (1946)
* Quartet of Five (1949)
* Madonna in Chains (1949)
* The Angel with the Flaming Sword (1954)
* Sergeant Borck (1955)

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