The White Disease (1937)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1937-12-21
Runtime: 105 minutes
Director: Hugo Haas
Top Cast
- Hugo Haas as Dr. Galén
- Zdeněk Štěpánek as The Marshal
- Bedřich Karen as Prof. Sigelius
- Václav Vydra as Baron Krog
- Ladislav Boháč as Krog's Nephew
- Karla Oličová as The Marshal's Daughter
- Jaroslav Průcha as Dr. Martin
- František Smolík as Father
- Helena Friedlová as Mother
- Vítězslav Boček as Son
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