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  2. The White Disease - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Skeleton on Horseback - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Karel Čapek - Wikipedia

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    1937 – The White Disease (Bílá nemoc) – earlier translated as (Power and Glory). About the conflict between a pacifist doctor and the fascistic Marshal. This was the answer to coming Nazi era in the air, just before the start of WWII. [41] 1938 – The Mother

  5. Czech speculative fiction - Wikipedia

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    Skeleton on Horseback (Bílá nemoc) (1937) Krakatit (1948) Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955) The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958) Man in Outer Space (1961) The Cybernetic Grandma (1962) Voyage to the End of the Universe (Ikarie XB-1, 1963) Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966) Late August at the Hotel Ozone (1967) I Killed Einstein ...

  6. Jan Tříska - Wikipedia

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    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)

  7. 1937 in literature - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Bila Tserkva massacre - Wikipedia

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    On 22 June 1941, Axis armies invaded the Soviet Union and by July, Wehrmacht units had captured Bila Tserkva as part of the Axis offensive on Kiev. [4] At the onset of the invasion of the Soviet Union, Jewish men were the sole target of mass murder campaigns, however by late July to early August, Jewish women and children also became targets of mass murder campaigns by the Wehrmacht, SS and ...

  9. Timeline of twentieth-century theatre - Wikipedia

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    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 ...