The White Disease

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.

Genre:

Drama, Science Fiction

Duration:

105 min

Cast:

Hugo Haas, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Bedřich Karen

Quality:

HD

Director:

Hugo Haas

Release:

1937

Country:

Czechoslovakia

Rating:

6.9