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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]
Bílá nemoc (The White Disease) Továrna na absolutno (The Absolute at Large) Krakatit: Notable awards: Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (in memoriam) Spouse: Olga Scheinpflugová: Parents: Antonín Čapek (father) Božena Čapková (mother) Relatives: Josef Čapek (brother) Helena Čapková (sister) Signature
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 ...
Kolář was born in Protivín on September 29, 1914, in a working-class environment. His father was a baker and his mother a seamstress, and he himself trained early in life as a cabinet maker (which cost him a finger).
Of Mice and Men is a 1937 novella written by American author John Steinbeck. [1] [2] It describes the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, as they move from place to place in California, searching for jobs during the Great Depression.
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 ...
An army of 21,000 Bohemians and mercenaries under Christian of Anhalt was defeated by 23,000 men of the combined armies of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, led by Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, and the German Catholic League led by Johann Tserclaes, later Count of Tilly, at Bílá Hora ("White Mountain") near Prague. [3]