Release Date

30 Dec, 1939

Runtime

01:53: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.

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Actors

Emil Jannings

Werner Krauß

Viktoria von Ballasko

Hilde Körber

Theodor Loos

Bernhard Minetti

Paul Bildt

Elisabeth Flickenschildt

Paul Dahlke

Eduard von Winterstein

Lucie Höflich

Hubert von Meyerinck

Raimund Schelcher

Otto Graf

Hildegard Grethe

Josef Sieber

Peter Elsholtz

Rolf Prasch

Paul Otto

Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Walter Werner

Crew

Hans Steinhoff

Hellmuth Unger

Lotte Neumann

Walter Wassermann