The White Disease
Directed by Hugo Haas
Plot
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.
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Cast
Hugo Haas
Dr. Galén
Zdeněk Štěpánek
The Marshal
Bedřich Karen
Prof. Sigelius
Václav Vydra
Baron Krog
Ladislav Boháč
Krog's Nephew
Karla Oličová
The Marshal's Daughter
Jaroslav Průcha
Dr. Martin
František Smolík
Father
Helena Friedlová
Mother
Vítězslav Boček
Son
Eva Svobodová
Daughter
Jaroslav Vojta
A Patient
Vladimír Šmeral
1st Assistant
Miroslav Svoboda
2nd Assistant
Karel Dostal
Propaganda Minister