The White Disease
The White Disease

The White Disease

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.

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Director: Hugo Haas

Cast: Hugo Haas, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Karla Oličová, Bedřich Karen

Country: Czechoslovakia

Quality: HD

Runtime: 105 min.

Release: 1937

IMDb: 6.8/10