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The White Disease

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Science Fiction

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.

Date: 12/21/1937

Rating: 6.8

Cast: Hugo Haas, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Bedřich Karen, Václav Vydra, Ladislav Boháč, Karla Oličová, Jaroslav Průcha, František Smolík, Helena Friedlová, Vítězslav Boček, Eva Svobodová, Jaroslav Vojta, Vladimír Šmeral, Miroslav Svoboda, Karel Dostal, Otto Rubík, Rudolf Deyl, Karel Jičínský, 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, Jiřina Vávrová

Hugo Haas