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The White Disease

1937-1h 45min
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6.8 / 10 13

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.

Directed by Hugo Haas

Writers Hugo Haas Karel Čapek

Stars Hugo Haas Zdeněk Štěpánek Bedřich Karen

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Cast

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Hugo Haas

Dr. Galén
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Zdeněk Štěpánek

The Marshal
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Bedřich Karen

Prof. Sigelius
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Václav Vydra

Baron Krog
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Ladislav Boháč

Krog's Nephew
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Karla Oličová

The Marshal's Daughter
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Jaroslav Průcha

Dr. Martin
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František Smolík

Father
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Helena Friedlová

Mother
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Vítězslav Boček

Son
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Eva Svobodová

Daughter
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Jaroslav Vojta

A Patient

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