The White Disease
1937
105 minutes
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.
Top 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
Otto Rubík
The Marshal's Adjutant
Rudolf Deyl
1st Kommissar
Karel Jičínský
2nd Kommissar
Marie Nademlejnská
Eduard Blažek
Vilém Pruner
Frank Rose-Růžička
Vladimír Smíchovský
Karel Jelínek
Vladimír Hlavatý
Emil Dlesk
Fráňa Vajner
Marie Holanová
Marie Bibikoffová
Erna Ženíšková
František Filipovský
Jan Šebor
Julius Baťha
Jaroslav Tryzna
Jiří Schreinzer
Anna Pírková
Jindřich Adolf
Karolína Vávrová
Viktor Dintr
Bohumil Langer
Antonín Šolc