Name: The White Disease
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Released: 1937-12-21
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Hugo Haas, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Bedřich Karen, Václav Vydra, Ladislav Boháč

The White Disease

TMDB 6.9ČSFD 69%19371h 45mReleased

Drama 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.

Director: Hugo Haas
Released: Dec 21, 1937