![The Steel Animal](https://i3.wp.com/image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/kbZ6eMXKfJ81huVvJbDqRMrGJLd.jpg)
Plot
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.
Writer | N/A |
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Director | Willy Zielke |
Actor | Aribert Mog, Sophia Hagen, Max Schreck |
Country | Germany |
Production | Willy Zielke, Kultutfilmhersteller |