Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn
96 mins
Biographical movie about Julius Robert Mayer (1814-1878), a surgeon and town doctor in Heilbronn, who studied heat for many years and was the first to correctly formulate the basic principles of the theory of mechanical heat and the principle of conservation of energy. Competing Prussian scientists laugh at him, and his life is full of misunderstandings and persecution. The film tells of his fate and his long and futile struggle for recognition of the results of his scientific work.
Otto Stübler
Closs
Gerd Michael Henneberg
Prof. Gustav Rümelin
Werner Segtrop
Von Rauch
Wolf Goette
Prof. Nörrenberg
Deli Buchinski
Mayor
Hugo Nillius
Patient
Ludwig Sachs
Patient
Paul Knopf
Patient
Ingeborg Dräger
guest
Walter Salow
guest
Isolde Eckhoff
Baronin
Elvira Sternbeck
Skinny Lady
Harry Gillmann
Pfarrer
Karl Görs
Rektor
Rita Hempel
maid
Georg Helge Pfleger
male nurse
Peter Höffner
dancer
Friedrich Löffler
clerk
Herbert Mewes-Conti
clerk
Maximilian Larsen
ship captain
Herbert Rüdiger
sail maker
Egon Vogel
librarian
Teddy Wulff
coachman / lecturer
Hans Wegen
Guard
Peter Arden
student in the lecture hall
Hermann Beelitz
student in the lecture hall
Bob Bolander
student in the lecture hall
Peter Hippler
student in the lecture hall
Lotte Kalipke
student in the lecture hall
Heinz Keuneke
student in the lecture hall
Carlo Kluge
student in the lecture hall
Toni Meitzen
student in the lecture hall
Harry Preuß
student in the lecture hall
Conrad Pfennig
student in the lecture hall
Paul Zeidler
student in the lecture hall
Mario Lerch
Professor
Heinz Appel
Professor
Erich Bludau
Professor
Horst Friedrich
Professor
Hans Schille
Professor
Gustav Stähnisch
Professor
Otto Lange
lecturer
Günther Polensen
lecturer
Reginald Pasch
lecturer
Siegfried Weil
lecturer
Wolfgang Kalweit
lecturer
Hermann Stetza
sailor
Helmut Spieß
Director
Alfred Böttcher
Writer
Ruth Moegelin
Editor
Joachim Werzlau
Music
Robert Baberske
Director of Photography