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.
as Dr. Robert Koch
as Geheimrat Rudolf Virchow
as Schwester Else
as Frau Göhrke
as Dr. Georg Gaffky
as Sprecher der Gesundbeter
as Baron von Kossin, Reichstagsabgeordneter
as seine Frau
as Lehrer
as Prof. Ernst von Bergmann
as Kochs Patientin Frau Paul
as Fähnrich Graf
as Kochs Assistent Dr. Fritz von Hartwig
as Kochs Assistent Dr. Friedrich Löffler
as Emmy Koch
as Waldhüter Göhrke
as Virchows Sekretär Dr. Karl Wetzel
as Kaiser Wilhelm I.
as Landrat von Hartwig
as Rechnungsrat
as Amtsdiener Stübecke
as Amtsdiener Michalke
as Fürst Otto von Bismarck
as Gesundbeter
as Gast beim Hofball
as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät
as Gast beim Hofball
as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät
as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
as Gast beim Hofball
as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
as Arzt
as Kochs Patient Netschmann
as Viehhändler
as Direktor der Charité
as Gesundbeter
as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
as 2. Assistenzarzt Virchows
as Gesundbeterin
as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät
as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät
as Uniformierter beim Empfang des Kaisers
as Reichstagsdiener
as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät
as Mann am Stammtisch
as Herr Kruhlke
as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institut
as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
as 1. Assistenzarzt Virchows
as Gast beim Hofball
as Arzt
as Aktenabhefter
as Reinemachefrau
as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät
as Gast beim Hofball
as Reichstagsdiener
as Gast beim Hofball
as Menzel
as Patientin
as Reinemachefrau
