Robert Koch - kuoleman voittaja

Original title: Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

19391939
SS
1h 53m

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6.5/10

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Biography Drama History

The young country doctor Dr. Robert Koch is desperate seeking a cure for a tuberculosis epidemic costing many children in his district life.The young country doctor Dr. Robert Koch is desperate seeking a cure for a tuberculosis epidemic costing many children in his district life.The young country doctor Dr. Robert Koch is desperate seeking a cure for a tuberculosis epidemic costing many children in his district life.

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

213,106

585

Director
- Hans Steinhoff
Writers
- Hellmuth Unger(novel "Robert Koch, Roman eines großen Lebens")
- Lotte Neumann(screenplay)
- Gerhard Menzel(idea)
Stars

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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination

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Emil Jannings in Robert Koch - kuoleman voittaja (1939)

Trivia
Hellmuth Unger, the writer of the book about Robert Koch, which the movie is based on, was a member of the "Race political bureau of the Nazi party", the former "Education bureau for population policy and race care". He wrote many journalistic articles about the race hygiene propaganda and worked on the subject of children euthanasia.

Goofs
The movie portrays Robert Koch as a lonely fighter for the progress of medicine. However in real life he had support by the bacteriologist Ferdinand Cohn from the Univeristy Breslau and his student and later pathologist Julius Cohnheim. Ferdinand Cohn gave him possibilities to produce experiments in their laboratories in Breslau in 1876. However Cohn was Jewish which is why he wasn't included as a character in this movie, made in Nazi Germany.

Quotes
Dr. Robert Koch: [to his wife Emmy] Why do you think I am sitting here nights after nights at the microscope? Because I finally want to know what it is, tuberculosis.