Bílá nemoc

Production dates and credits taken from print and Audio Brandon Films Catalog, 1978-79, p. 372.; Based on stage play of same title by Karel Čapek.; In Czech with English subtitles.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Director of photography, Ota Heller ; music by Jan Branberger ; set designs, Štěpǎn Kopecký, Vilém Taraba.; Hugo Haas, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Bedrích Karen, Václav Vydra.; "The story pits against each other two worlds: a world of violence, and a world of tolerance. At the head of the first is the Marshal, a dictator intoxicated by power and glory; at the head of the other, Dr. Galen, a medical practitioner. Dr. Galen is backed only by his patients and the 'white disease' - an illness against which medical science is powerless. Dr. Galen is willing to give the world a drug against the infectious white disease provided that preparations for war are stopped, and succeeds only when the Marshal himself is infected with the disease."-- Audio Brandon catalog.; PFA 1616-01-7727. CONDITION NOTE: Last checked: 17 October 2000, print slightly dirty.