Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

Drama, History | Dec. 30, 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.

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

Drama, History | Dec. 30, 1939

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
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.
Producers Tobis
Original title Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
Directors Hans Steinhoff
Writers Hellmuth Unger, Lotte Neumann, Walter Wassermann

Cast

Emil Jannings

as Dr. Robert Koch

Werner Krauß

as Geheimrat Rudolf Virchow

Viktoria von Ballasko

as Schwester Else

Hilde Körber

as Frau Göhrke

Theodor Loos

as Dr. Georg Gaffky

Bernhard Minetti

as Sprecher der Gesundbeter

Paul Bildt

as Baron von Kossin, Reichstagsabgeordneter

Elisabeth Flickenschildt

as seine Frau

Paul Dahlke

as Lehrer

Eduard von Winterstein

as Prof. Ernst von Bergmann

Lucie Höflich

as Kochs Patientin Frau Paul

Hubert von Meyerinck

as Fähnrich Graf

Raimund Schelcher

as Kochs Assistent Dr. Fritz von Hartwig

Otto Graf

as Kochs Assistent Dr. Friedrich Löffler

Hildegard Grethe

as Emmy Koch

Josef Sieber

as Waldhüter Göhrke

Peter Elsholtz

as Virchows Sekretär Dr. Karl Wetzel

Rolf Prasch

as Kaiser Wilhelm I.

Paul Otto

as Landrat von Hartwig

Rudolf Klein-Rogge

as Rechnungsrat

Walter Werner

as Amtsdiener Stübecke

Jakob Tiedtke

as Amtsdiener Michalke

Friedrich Otto Fischer

as Fürst Otto von Bismarck

Walter Bechmann

as Gesundbeter

Charly Berger

as Gast beim Hofball

Ernst Dernburg

as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät

Fritz Draeger

as Gast beim Hofball

Erich Dunskus

as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät

Wilhelm Egger-Sell

as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu

Max Harry Ernst

as Gast beim Hofball

Kurt Felden

as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu

Robert Forsch

as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu

Werner Funck

as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu

Georg Gartz

as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu

Herbert Gernot

as Arzt

Bernhard Goetzke

as Kochs Patient Netschmann

Karl Hannemann

as Viehhändler

Karl Haubenreißer

as Direktor der Charité

Karl Heidmann

as Gesundbeter

Kurt Herrmann

as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu

Alfred Heynisch

as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu

Paul Hildebrandt

as 2. Assistenzarzt Virchows

Maria Hofen

as Gesundbeterin

Carl Jönsson

as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät

Karl Kahlmann

as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu

Willy Kaiser-Heyl

as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät

Alfred Karen

as Uniformierter beim Empfang des Kaisers

Fred Köster

as Reichstagsdiener

Philipp Manning

as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät

Heinz Müller

as Mann am Stammtisch

Karl Platen

as Herr Kruhlke

Werner Pledath

as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institut

Paul Rehkopf

as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu

Josef Reithofer

as 1. Assistenzarzt Virchows

Ferdinand Robert

as Gast beim Hofball

Werner Schott

as Arzt

Walter Schramm-Dunker

as Aktenabhefter

Charlotte Schultz

as Reinemachefrau

Franz Stein

as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu

Egon Vogel

as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät

Jens von Hagen

as Gast beim Hofball

Leopold von Ledebur

as Reichstagsdiener

Elisabeth von Ruets

as Gast beim Hofball

Karl Wagner

as Menzel

Auguste Wanner-Kirsch

as Patientin

Gertrud Wolle

as Reinemachefrau