Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

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Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

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Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.

Date: 12/30/1939

Rating: 5.8

Cast: Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Viktoria von Ballasko, Hilde Körber, Theodor Loos, Bernhard Minetti, Paul Bildt, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Paul Dahlke, Eduard von Winterstein, Lucie Höflich, Hubert von Meyerinck, Raimund Schelcher, Otto Graf, Hildegard Grethe, Josef Sieber, Peter Elsholtz, Rolf Prasch, Paul Otto, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Walter Werner, Jakob Tiedtke, Friedrich Otto Fischer, Walter Bechmann, Charly Berger, Walter Brückner, Ernst Dernburg, Fritz Draeger, Erich Dunskus, Wilhelm Egger-Sell, Max Harry Ernst, Kurt Felden, Robert Forsch, Werner Funck, Georg Gartz, Herbert Gernot, Bernhard Goetzke, Karl Hannemann, Karl Haubenreißer, Karl Heidmann, Kurt Herrmann, Alfred Heynisch, Paul Hildebrandt, Maria Hofen, Carl Jönsson, Karl Kahlmann, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Alfred Karen, Fred Köster, Paul Luka, Philipp Manning, Heinz Müller, Karl Platen, Werner Pledath, Paul Rehkopf, Josef Reithofer, Ferdinand Robert, Werner Schott, Walter Schramm-Dunker, Charlotte Schultz, Franz Stein, Max Vierlinger, Egon Vogel, Jens von Hagen, Leopold von Ledebur, Elisabeth von Ruets, Karl Wagner, Auguste Wanner-Kirsch, Gertrud Wolle, Klaus Pohl

Emil Jannings