Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (1939)
Synopsis
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.
Release Date: 1939-12-30
Runtime: 113 minutes
Director: Hans Steinhoff
Top Cast
- Emil Jannings as Dr. Robert Koch
- Werner Krauss as Geheimrat Rudolf Virchow
- Viktoria von Ballasko as Schwester Else
- Hilde Körber as Frau Göhrke
- Theodor Loos as Dr. Georg Gaffky
- Bernhard Minetti as Sprecher der Gesundbeter
- Paul Bildt as Baron von Kossin, Reichstagsabgeordneter
- Elisabeth Flickenschildt as seine Frau
- Paul Dahlke as Lehrer
- Eduard von Winterstein as Prof. Ernst von Bergmann
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