The White Disease

The White Disease

6.8

Release Date:
Dec 21, 1937

Runtime:
1h 45m

Genres:
Drama, Science Fiction

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.

Director: Hugo Haas
Writer: Hugo Haas
Production: Moldavia-Film