The White Disease

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Hugo Haas Dr. Galén

Zdeněk Štěpánek The Marshal

Bedřich Karen Prof. Sigelius

Václav Vydra Baron Krog

Ladislav Boháč Krog's Nephew