Diesel

1942
1h 49m

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

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... Read allA 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.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.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Photos

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
The movie is based on the biography "Diesel: Der Mensch, Das Werk, Das Schicksal" (Diesel: The Human, The Work, The Destiny) from 1937, written by Eugen Diesel, the youngest son of Rudolf Diesel.

Goofs
Diesel said at the party that Nicolaus Otto and Eugen Langen invented the four stroke engine 20 years ago. The scene is set in 1893 but the mentioned motor was finished and first used in 1876, which would be 17 years ago.

Quotes
Rudolf Diesel: If a problem can be solved mathematically, it can be solved technically.

Connections
Featured in Timeshift: The Engine That Powers the World (2015)

Soundtracks
Freut euch des Lebens
(uncredited)
music by "Hans Georg Hägeli
lyrics by Johann Martin Usteri
(played on the piano and sang at Barnickel's home)