Skeleton on Horseback 1937 Movie

"The White Sickness", a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war. More details

Directors

Hugo Haas

Cast

Hugo Haas Bedrich Karen Zdenek Stepánek

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drama fantasy sci-fi war sickness disease czech fantasy czech science fiction fanatical crowd death of protagonist irony of fate terminal illness fantasy sequence fantasy scene letter militarist speech telephone call death by shooting death by gunshot suicide by gunshot suicide by shooting loss of friend death peace military leper friendship between men statesman dictator delusion of grandeur handshake uncle nephew relationship pretending to be someone else incognito rabbit laboratory politics moral dilemma flashback fictitious country infectious disease bechdel test failed contagious disease refusing to shake hands factory owner death camp baker learning the truth sick wife injection opportunist opportunism pacifism pacifist humanism humanist class differences ultimatum propaganda odor smell secret police satire political satire clinic minister ill mother sick mother mother son relationship rocking chair employer employee relationship promotion promise head physician research scientific research scientific experiment manipulative person manipulative man manipulative behavior psychological manipulation nickname greek abroad scientist as protagonist pocket mirror colleague colleague relationship father daughter relationship father son relationship husband wife relationship reading a newspaper morphine visitor visit stretcher chieftain army family relationships piano playing playing piano accident gas fired from a job dead body alarm screaming woman journalist taking notes virus hospital room nurse color in title hospital reference to jesus christ reference to god crowd fanaticism fanatic cheering crowd populist populist politician politician reference to adolf hitler nationalist nationalism anti war aristocrat nobleman baron science scientist allegory two word title populism epidemic cure doctor as protagonist doctor illness fictional war pestilence death of friend based on play

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