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The White Disease (1937)
Directed by Hugo Haas
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.
Length 105 minutes
Actors
Hugo Haas | Zdeněk Štěpánek | Karla Olicová | Bedřich Karen | Václav Vydra | Ladislav Boháč | Jaroslav Průcha | Karel Dostal | Rudolf Deyl st. | František Smolík | Eva Svobodová | Helena Friedlová | Vítězslav Boček | Otto Rubík | Vladimír Šmeral | Miroslav Svoboda | Marie Nademlejnská | Karel Jičínský | Eduard Blažek | Vilém Pruner | Frank Rose-Růžička | Vladimír Smíchovský | Karel Jelínek | Vladimír Hlavatý | Jaroslav Tryzna | Jaroslav Vojta | Emil Dlesk | Fráňa Vajner | Antonín Šolc | Karolína Vávrová | Marie Bibikoffová | Erna Ženíšková | František Filipovský | Julius Batha | Marie Holanová | Anna Pírková | Jan Šebor | Jindřich Adolf