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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
Anthony Armstrong – Mile Away Murder; Bertolt Brecht with Margarete Steffin – Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar (adapted from J. M. Synge's Señora Carrar's Rifles); Karel Čapek – The White Disease (Bílá nemoc)
Attack Force Z (alternatively titled The Z Men) [1] is a 1982 Australian-Taiwanese [2] World War II film directed by Tim Burstall. It is loosely based on actual events and was filmed in Taiwan in 1979.
Warren, Citizen Z, Doc and George decide to break out of the lockdown and head to Pacifica, looking for Dante and answers. Murphy has a stalker who turns out to be a friend and offers him a ride somewhere new after he falls out of Dante's van. Meanwhile, 10K, Sarge, Red and Sun Mei are all fighting it out against the Z hordes when 10K gets bit.
The title S/Z refers to the clash between the ‘S’ of ‘Sarrasine,’ the male protagonist of the work, and the ‘Z’ of ‘Zambinella,’ the castrato with whom Sarrasine falls in love. Sarrasine is an artist who, functioning under the assumption that all beauty is feminine, regards Zambinella as the epitome of beauty, and therefore as ...
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]