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
Vladimír Hlavatý
František Smolík
as Father
Eva Svobodová
as Daughter
Viktor Dintr
Zdeněk Štěpánek
as The Marshal
Bedřich Karen
as Prof. Sigelius
František Filipovský
Karla Oličová
as The Marshal's Daughter
Jaroslav Průcha
as Dr. Martin
Václav Vydra
as Baron Krog
Vladimír Šmeral
as 1st Assistant
Otto Rubík
as The Marshal's Adjutant
Marie Nademlejnská
Vilém Pruner
Hugo Haas
as Dr. Galén
Vítězslav Boček
as Son
Rudolf Deyl
as 1st Kommissar
Ladislav Boháč
as Krog's Nephew
Jaroslav Vojta
as A Patient
Karel Dostal
as Propaganda Minister
Karel Jičínský
as 2nd Kommissar
