Venice Film Festival 1938

The White Plague, a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war. Based on a play by Karel Čapek.

Venice Film Festival 1937

Slightly ironic comedy of wretches, who come to understand the rich and are able to accept charity, and also about how love and work prevail over the factory owner's son.

During a pogrom against Jews in a village, an innkeeper is killed, his daughter is put in a convent after being crucified, and her illegitimate child, who later grows up to be a student, is placed in the care of a guardian.