Bílá nemoc

The White Disease

Author

Karel Čapek

Language

Czech

Year

1937

Country

Czechoslovakia

Genre

Drama / Theatre / Plays

eastern europe🚗modernism

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The White Plague is a play written by Czech writer Karel Čapek in 1937. 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 older than 45. It was adapted as the film Skeleton on Horseback by Hugo Haas.