The White Disease

Name: The White Disease
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Released: 1937-12-21
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 6.875
Cast: Hugo Haas, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Bedřich Karen, Václav Vydra, Ladislav Boháč

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6.9 (16)1937-12-211h 45m

DramaScience Fiction

Overview

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.