Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
5.8
113 minutes
12/30/1939
Overview
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.
Cast List
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
Walter Brückner
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
Paul Luka
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
Max Vierlinger
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
Klaus Pohl