The Steel Animal

01/09/1935

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1hr 11min

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Comedy

,Documentary

,Drama

,History

STORY

Klaassen receives a phone call, and he is happy with his transfer to head the railway line's controlling team. He accepts well his change of job, but when he meets his co-workers, uncultured and rough people, he starts having second thoughts. However, he takes it easy, recognizes that they're highly trained works, and teaches them a number of (flashback) stories of pioneers of the present steam train: the early invention by Denis Papin (1679); the three legendary land-surveyors of Caton Hill; the 1769 experiment by Nicolas-Joseph De Cugnot; the 1813 machine test of William Hedley; the 1829 developments by Robert Stephenson; and finally the grand opening of the first German steam railway line of Nürnberg-Fürth - stories in which man's will to conquer the machine was sometimes met with disaster.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Aribert Mog
  • Sophia Hagen
  • Max Schreck
  • Ernst Schrumpf

    Director

  • Willy Zielke

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Willy Zielke, Kultutfilmhersteller
  • Reichsbahn-Filmstelle

    Production Countries

  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German