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Also known as The White Disease

1937 film by Hugo Haas

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6.9

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.

Released: 1937-12-21105 minDir: Hugo HaasDrama, Science Fiction
Stream on: Lepsi TV

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

Themes

  • based on play or musical
  • disease
  • fictional war
  • anti war

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Ratings

IMDb

7.5/10

432 votes

Year
1937
Runtime
78 min
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
film
Original language
Czech
Main subject
epidemic
Director
Hugo Haas
Screenwriter
Karel Čapek
Producer
Hugo Haas
Cinematographer
Otto Heller
Duration
103
FilmAffinity ID
548215
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publication date
1937-01-01
title
Bílá nemoc
after a work by
Karel Čapek
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