Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (1939)
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.
Director: Hans Steinhoff
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Emil Jannings as Dr. Robert Koch |
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Werner Krauss as Geheimrat Rudolf Virchow |
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Viktoria von Ballasko as Schwester Else |
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Hilde Körber as Frau Göhrke |
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Theodor Loos as Dr. Georg Gaffky |
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Bernhard Minetti as Sprecher der Gesundbeter |
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Paul Bildt as Baron von Kossin, Reichstagsabgeordneter |
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Elisabeth Flickenschildt as seine Frau |
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Paul Dahlke as Lehrer |
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Eduard von Winterstein as Prof. Ernst von Bergmann |
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Lucie Höflich as Kochs Patientin Frau Paul |
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Hubert von Meyerinck as Fähnrich Graf |
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Raimund Schelcher as Kochs Assistent Dr. Fritz von Hartwig |
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Otto Graf as Kochs Assistent Dr. Friedrich Löffler |
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Hildegard Grethe as Emmy Koch |
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Josef Sieber as Waldhüter Göhrke |
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Peter Elsholtz as Virchows Sekretär Dr. Karl Wetzel |
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Rolf Prasch as Kaiser Wilhelm I. |
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Paul Otto as Landrat von Hartwig |
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Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Rechnungsrat |
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Walter Werner as Amtsdiener Stübecke |
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Jakob Tiedtke as Amtsdiener Michalke |
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Friedrich Otto Fischer as Fürst Otto von Bismarck |
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Walter Bechmann as Gesundbeter |
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Charly Berger as Gast beim Hofball |
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Walter Brückner as |
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Ernst Dernburg as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät |
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Fritz Draeger as Gast beim Hofball |
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Erich Dunskus as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät |
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Wilhelm Egger-Sell as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu |
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Max Harry Ernst as Gast beim Hofball |
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Kurt Felden as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu |
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Robert Forsch as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu |
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Werner Funck as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu |
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Georg Gartz as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu |
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Herbert Gernot as Arzt |
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Bernhard Goetzke as Kochs Patient Netschmann |
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Karl Hannemann as Viehhändler |
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Karl Haubenreißer as Direktor der Charité |
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Karl Heidmann as Gesundbeter |
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Kurt Herrmann as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu |
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Alfred Heynisch as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu |
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Paul Hildebrandt as 2. Assistenzarzt Virchows |
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Maria Hofen as Gesundbeterin |
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Carl Jönsson as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät |
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Karl Kahlmann as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu |
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Willy Kaiser-Heyl as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät |
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Alfred Karen as Uniformierter beim Empfang des Kaisers |
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Fred Köster as Reichstagsdiener |
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Paul Luka as |
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Philipp Manning as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät |
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Heinz Müller as Mann am Stammtisch |
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Karl Platen as Herr Kruhlke |
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Werner Pledath as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institut |
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Paul Rehkopf as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu |
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Josef Reithofer as 1. Assistenzarzt Virchows |
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Ferdinand Robert as Gast beim Hofball |
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Werner Schott as Arzt |
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Walter Schramm-Dunker as Aktenabhefter |
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Charlotte Schultz as Reinemachefrau |
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Franz Stein as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu |
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Max Vierlinger as |
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Egon Vogel as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät |
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Jens von Hagen as Gast beim Hofball |
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Leopold von Ledebur as Reichstagsdiener |
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Elisabeth von Ruets as Gast beim Hofball |
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Karl Wagner as Menzel |
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Auguste Wanner-Kirsch as Patientin |
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Gertrud Wolle as Reinemachefrau |
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Klaus Pohl as |
| Directing | Hans Steinhoff | Director |
| Writing | Walter Wassermann | Writer |
| Writing | Hellmuth Unger | Novel |
| Writing | Lotte Neumann | Writer |