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The White Plague (Czech: Bílá nemoc) is a play written by Czech writer Karel Čapek in 1937. [1] Written at a time of increasing threat from Nazi Germany to Czechoslovakia, it portrays a human response to a tense, prewar situation in an unnamed country that greatly resembles Germany with one extra addition: an uncurable white disease, a form of leprosy, is selectively killing off people ...
Skeleton on Horseback aka The White Disease (Czech: Bílá nemoc) is a 1937 Czechoslovak drama film directed by and starring Hugo Haas. It revolves around an infectious disease which breaks out during a war. It is based on the play The White Disease by Karel Čapek. [1]
Karel Čapek (Czech: [ˈkarɛl ˈtʃapɛk] ⓘ; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist. He has become best known for his science fiction , including his novel War with the Newts (1936) and play R.U.R. ( Rossum's Universal Robots , 1920), which introduced the word robot .
Čapek is perhaps best known as a science fiction author, who wrote before science fiction became established as a separate genre. He can be considered one of the founders of classical, non-hardcore European science fiction, a type which focuses on possible future (or alternative) social and human evolution on Earth, rather than technically ...
Bílá nemoc (1956-1957) as first assistant (play by Karel Čapek, directed by Jaromír Pleskot) Maryša (1956-1957) as Second Man (directed by Zdeněk Štěpánek) Saint Jane as Page (directed by Jaromír Pleskot) Romeo and Juliet (1963) as Romeo (National Theatre, Prague, directed by Otomar Krejča)
Karel Čapek – The White Disease (Bílá nemoc) Paul Vincent Carroll – Shadow and Substance; Jeffrey Dell – Blondie White; Reginald Denham and Edward Percy Smith; The Last Straw; Suspect; Ian Hay – The Gusher; Margaret Kennedy – Autumn; Arthur Kober – "Having Wonderful Time" Richard Llewellyn – Poison Pen; W.P. Lipscomb – Thank ...
Bílá nemoc (Skeleton on Horseback) Hugo Haas: Hugo Haas, Zdeněk Štěpánek, František Smolík: drama: according to a drama by Karel Čapek: Děvče za výkladem: Miroslav Cikán: Falešná kočička: Vladimír Slavínský: Věra Ferbasová, Oldřich Nový, Antonie Nedošinská, Jára Kohout: comedy: remake of the 1926 silent film Falešná ...
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