
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.
Title | The White Disease |
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Year | 1937 |
Genre | Drama, Science Fiction |
Country | Czechoslovakia |
Studio | Moldavia-Film |
Cast | Hugo Haas, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Bedřich Karen, Václav Vydra, Ladislav Boháč, Karla Oličová |
Crew | Hugo Haas (Director), Hugo Haas (Screenplay), Jan Branberger (Original Music Composer), Otto Heller (Director of Photography), Antonín Kubový (Assistant Director), Karel Čapek (Theatre Play) |
Release | Dec 21, 1937 |
Runtime | 105 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 6.80 / 10 by 13 users |
Popularity | 0 |