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The White Disease (1937)
Directed by Hugo Haas
Drama, Science Fiction · 1h 45m
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
H
Helena Friedlová
Mother
Vítězslav Boček
Son
Eva Svobodová
Daughter
Jaroslav Vojta
A Patient
Crew
- Director
- Hugo Haas
- Screenplay
- Hugo Haas
- Director of Photography
- Otto Heller
- Original Music Composer
- Jan Branberger
- Editor
- Antonín Zelenka
Details
- Original title
- Bílá nemoc
- Release date
- 1937-12-21
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama, Science Fiction
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Production
- Moldavia-Film