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Diesel is a film of genre Drama directed by Gerhard Lamprecht with Willy Birgel

Diesel (1943)

Diesel
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Length 1h49
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Genres Drama,    Historical
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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. 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. The film's sets were designed by art director Erich Kettelhut.

Actors

Willy Birgel

(Rudolf Diesel)Paul Wegener

(Direktor Buz)Josef Sieber

(Martin)Arthur Schröder

(Lucien Vogel)Erich Ponto

(Theodor Diesel)
And :
Hubert von Meyerinck
Werner Pledath
Walter Janssen
Albert Florath
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