The White Disease
(1937)
★ 6.9 IMDb · 16 votes
Year: 1937
Runtime: 105 мин
Country: Czechoslovakia
Director: Hugo Haas
Cast: Hugo Haas, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Bedřich Karen, Václav Vydra, Ladislav Boháč, Karla Oličová, Jaroslav Průcha, František Smolík, Helena Friedlová, Vítězslav Boček
Plot
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.