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The White Disease
November 1, 2025 - November 30, 2025
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The White Disease
Hugo Haas, Czechoslovakia 1937, 105´, English subtitles
Cast: Hugo Haas, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Karla Olicová, Václav Vydra Sr.
Based on Karel Čapek’s visionary play, White Disease (1937) tells of a mysterious plague sweeping the world, sparing no one—rich or poor. Only one man, Dr. Galén, holds the cure— but he will release it only if the leaders renounce war. His ultimatum collides with a ruthless dictator preparing for invasion,— a thinly veiled portrait of Hitler and Nazi Germany. Banned in Czechoslovakia after the 1938 Munich Agreement, the film remains uncannily relevant today: a tense thought-provoking parable where deadly disease and the lust for power intertwine. A forgotten classic that resonates as urgently now as on the eve of World War II.
