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The White Disease

The White Disease

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 21, 1937

Runtime

1h 45m

Genres

Drama, Science Fiction

User Score

68%

Original Title

Bílá nemoc

Production Companies

Moldavia-Film

Director

Hugo Haas

Description

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.