Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
1939, German. Directed by Hans Steinhoff.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- German
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Cast & crew
- Hans SteinhoffDirector
- Emil JanningsDr. Robert Koch
- Werner KraussGeheimrat Rudolf Virchow
- Viktoria von BallaskoSchwester Else
- Hilde KörberFrau Göhrke
- Theodor LoosDr. Georg Gaffky
- Bernhard MinettiSprecher der Gesundbeter
- Paul BildtBaron von Kossin, Reichstagsabgeordneter
- Elisabeth Flickenschildtseine Frau
- Paul DahlkeLehrer
- Eduard von WintersteinProf. Ernst von Bergmann
- Lucie HöflichKochs Patientin Frau Paul
- Hubert von MeyerinckFähnrich Graf
Details
- Released
- 30 December 1939
- Country
- Germany
- Written by
- Lotte Neumann, Walter Wassermann
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Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (1939) was directed by Hans Steinhoff and stars Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Viktoria von Ballasko.