The White Disease

The adaptation of Karel Čapek's legendary anti-war utopian play The White Disease was directed by Hugo Haas, who also played the lead role.

Bílá nemoc
Czechoslovakia 1937
  • English
105 min.
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  • This film is available until 31. 12. 2024 in these territories: Czechia, Slovakia.
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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.

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Credits
Director: Hugo Haas
Based on: Karel Čapek
Screenplay: Hugo Haas
Cinematography: Otto Heller
Music: Jan Branberger
Sound: Vilém Taraba
Editing: Antonín Zelenka
Production Design: Štěpán Kopecký
Producer: Jan Sinnreich, Vladimír Kabelík
Costumes: Štěpán Dušánek, Marie Holanová
Cast: Hugo Haas, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Karla Oličová, Bedřich Karen, Václav Vydra st., Ladislav Boháč
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  • This film is available until 31. 12. 2024 in these territories: Czechia, Slovakia.