The Steel Animal

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Aribert Mog

Narrator / Engineer Klaassen

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Sophia Hagen

Various roles

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Max Schreck

Age : 56 | Popularity : 18%

Ernst Schrumpf

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Willy Zielke
Writing	Writer	Willy Zielke
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