The White Disease
Bílá nemoc
Release: 1937-12-21
·Runtime: 105m
·★ 6.7
Drama
Science Fiction
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.
Production Countries
Czechoslovakia
Production Companies
Moldavia-Film
Cast
Otto Rubík
as The Marshal's Adjutant
Marie Nademlejnská
František Filipovský
Jaroslav Průcha
as Dr. Martin
Vladimír Šmeral
as 1st Assistant
Zdeněk Štěpánek
as The Marshal
František Smolík
as Father
Ladislav Boháč
as Krog's Nephew
Vilém Pruner
Karla Oličová
as The Marshal's Daughter
Vítězslav Boček
as Son
Jaroslav Vojta
as A Patient
Karel Jičínský
as 2nd Kommissar
Viktor Dintr
Eva Svobodová
as Daughter
Karel Dostal
as Propaganda Minister
Rudolf Deyl
as 1st Kommissar
Václav Vydra
as Baron Krog
Vladimír Hlavatý
Hugo Haas
as Dr. Galén
Bedřich Karen
as Prof. Sigelius
