The White Disease
Overview
Cast & Crew
Production House
The Plot
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.
Run Time
1h 45m
Genre
Drama, Science Fiction
Release Date
21 Dec 1937
Country
Czechoslovakia
Language
Czech
Director & Producers
Hugo HaasTop Billed Cast
Zdeněk Štěpánek
Bedřich Karen
Václav Vydra
Ladislav Boháč
Karla Oličová
Jaroslav Průcha
František Smolík
Vítězslav Boček
Eva Svobodová
Jaroslav Vojta
Otto Heller
Karel Čapek
Ludwig van Beethoven
Moldavia-Film