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The White Disease

(1937)

December 21, 1937 1h 45m
69%
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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.

Hugo Haas

Director

Top Billed Cast

HH

Hugo Haas

Dr. Galén

Zdeněk Štěpánek

The Marshal

BK

Bedřich Karen

Prof. Sigelius

VV

Václav Vydra

Baron Krog

LB

Ladislav Boháč

Krog's Nephew

KO

Karla Oličová

The Marshal's Daughter

JP

Jaroslav Průcha

Dr. Martin

FS

František Smolík

Father

HF

Helena Friedlová

Mother

VB

Vítězslav Boček

Son