The White Disease
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- Science Fiction
- Drama
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.
Keywords
- anti war
- fictional war
- disease
- based on play or musical
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 21, 1937
- Original language
- Czech
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Production
- Moldavia-Film
- Cast
- Eva Svobodová,Otto Rubík,František Smolík,Vilém Pruner,Vítězslav Boček,Marie Bibikoffová,Marie Holanová,Jaroslav Průcha,Bohumil Langer,Hugo Haasand 32 more
- Director
- Hugo Haas
- Writer
- Hugo Haas,Karel Čapek
- Cinematography
- Otto Heller
- Music
- Jan Branberger
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0028632