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The White Disease

12/21/1937

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1hr 45min

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Drama

,Science Fiction

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Hugo Haas
  • Zdeněk Štěpánek
  • Bedřich Karen
  • Václav Vydra
  • Ladislav Boháč

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

    • Moldavia-Film

      Production Countries

    • Czechoslovakia

    LANGUAGES

    • Czech

    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

    Helena Friedlová

    Mother

    Vítězslav Boček

    Son