Diesel (1942)
With Willy Birgel, Hilde Weissner, Paul Wegener, Josef Sieber, Arthur Schröder, Hilde von Stolz, Erich Ponto, Werner Pledath
Directed by Gerhard Lamprecht
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.
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