Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
Release: 1939-12-30
·Runtime: 113m
·★ 5.8
Drama
History
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.
Production Countries
Germany
Production Companies
Tobis
Cast
Viktoria von Ballasko
as Schwester Else
Werner Pledath
as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institut
Leopold von Ledebur
as Reichstagsdiener
Lucie Höflich
as Kochs Patientin Frau Paul
Theodor Loos
as Dr. Georg Gaffky
Hubert von Meyerinck
as Fähnrich Graf
Werner Krauss
as Geheimrat Rudolf Virchow
Jakob Tiedtke
as Amtsdiener Michalke
Paul Dahlke
as Lehrer
Eduard von Winterstein
as Prof. Ernst von Bergmann
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
as Rechnungsrat
Hildegard Grethe
as Emmy Koch
Josef Sieber
as Waldhüter Göhrke
Hilde Körber
as Frau Göhrke
Bernhard Goetzke
as Kochs Patient Netschmann
Karl Platen
as Herr Kruhlke
Bernhard Minetti
as Sprecher der Gesundbeter
Paul Bildt
as Baron von Kossin, Reichstagsabgeordneter
Klaus Pohl
Emil Jannings
as Dr. Robert Koch
Elisabeth Flickenschildt
as seine Frau
Josef Reithofer
as 1. Assistenzarzt Virchows
Walter Werner
as Amtsdiener Stübecke
Paul Rehkopf
as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
Raimund Schelcher
as Kochs Assistent Dr. Fritz von Hartwig
Peter Elsholtz
as Virchows Sekretär Dr. Karl Wetzel
Paul Otto
as Landrat von Hartwig
Erich Dunskus
as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät
Gertrud Wolle
as Reinemachefrau
