Robert Koch: The Battle Against Death
Released: December 30, 1939Runtime: 113 minLanguage: DE
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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Emil Jannings
as Dr. Robert Koch
Werner Krauss
as Geheimrat Rudolf Virchow
Viktoria Von Ballasko
as Schwester Else
Raimund Schelcher
as Kochs Assistent Dr. Fritz von Hartwig
Hilde Korber
as Frau Göhrke
Theodor Loos
as Kochs Assistent Dr. Georg Gaffky
Otto Graf
as Kochs Assistent Dr. Friedrich Löffler
Hildegard Grethe
as Emmy Koch
Josef Sieber
as Waldhüter Göhrke
Peter Elsholtz
as Virchows Sekretär Dr. Karl Wetzel
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