The White Disease
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- Runtime
- 105 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Hugo Haas
- Zdeněk Štěpánek
- Karla Oličová
- Bedřich Karen
- Václav Vydra
- Ladislav Boháč
- Jaroslav Průcha
- Karel Dostal
- Rudolf Deyl
- 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 Baťha
- Marie Holanová
- Anna Pírková
- Jan Šebor
- Jindřich Adolf
Director
- Hugo Haas
Producers
Screenwriter
- Hugo Haas