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Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

5.8 average rating
5.8
German / 113 MIN. / 1939

The Genres

The 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.

The Cast

Emil JanningsWerner KraussViktoria von BallaskoHilde KörberTheodor LoosBernhard MinettiPaul BildtElisabeth FlickenschildtPaul DahlkeEduard von WintersteinLucie HöflichHubert von MeyerinckRaimund SchelcherOtto GrafHildegard GretheJosef SieberPeter ElsholtzRolf PraschPaul OttoRudolf Klein-RoggeWalter WernerJakob TiedtkeFriedrich Otto FischerWalter BechmannCharly BergerWalter BrücknerErnst DernburgFritz DraegerErich DunskusWilhelm Egger-SellMax Harry ErnstKurt FeldenRobert ForschWerner FunckGeorg GartzHerbert GernotBernhard GoetzkeKarl HannemannKarl HaubenreißerKarl HeidmannKurt HerrmannAlfred HeynischPaul HildebrandtMaria HofenCarl JönssonKarl KahlmannWilly Kaiser-HeylAlfred KarenFred KösterPaul LukaPhilipp ManningHeinz MüllerKarl PlatenWerner PledathPaul RehkopfJosef ReithoferFerdinand RobertWerner SchottWalter Schramm-DunkerCharlotte SchultzFranz SteinMax VierlingerEgon VogelJens von HagenLeopold von LedeburElisabeth von RuetsKarl WagnerAuguste Wanner-KirschGertrud WolleKlaus Pohl

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