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The White Disease (1937)

The White Disease (1937)

Science Fiction Drama
Release Date: 1937, December 21
Directors: Hugo Haas
Countries: Czechoslovakia
Production: Moldavia-Film, Moldavia-Film
Cast: Václav Vydra, Miroslav Svoboda, Eva Svobodová, Vladimír Šmeral, Ladislav Boháč, František Smolík, Rudolf Deyl, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Jaroslav Vojta, Bedřich Karen, Hugo Haas, Karel Dostal

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.

Keywords:

disease based on play or musical anti war fictional war