The White Disease
The White Disease

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The White Disease

6.7(14 votes)
1937
1h 45m
DramaScience Fiction
based on play or musicaldiseasefictional waranti war

Overview

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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