The White Disease (1937)

6.9/10 105 min Drama Science Fiction

Overview

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery speeches of a dictator, the bacillus of a highly destructive form of leprosy has spread. It is called morbus Tshengi, or popularly „white disease“. The only one who has developed an effective cure for it is a physician of the poor named Galén. But he refuses to reveal the secret of his cure as long as the powerful destroy human lives through wars.

Cast

Hugo Haas

Dr. Galén

Zdeněk Štěpánek

The Marshal

Bedřich Karen

Prof. Sigelius

Václav Vydra

Baron Krog

Ladislav Boháč

Krog's Nephew

Karla Oličová

The Marshal's Daughter

Jaroslav Průcha

Dr. Martin

František Smolík

Father

Vítězslav Boček

Son

Eva Svobodová

Daughter

Jaroslav Vojta

A Patient

Vladimír Šmeral

1st Assistant

Karel Dostal

Propaganda Minister

Otto Rubík

The Marshal's Adjutant

Rudolf Deyl

1st Kommissar

Karel Jičínský

2nd Kommissar

Marie Nademlejnská

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