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6.9In 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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- First Czechoslovak Republic
- Original language
- Czech
- Based on
- The White Disease
- Main subject
- epidemic
- Director
- Hugo Haas
- Screenwriter
- Karel Čapek
- Cast member
- Marie Nademlejnská
- 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
- color
- black-and-white
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