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Directed by | Hans Steinhoff |
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Based on | Robert Koch, Roman eines grosse Lebens by Hellmuth Unger |
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Cinematography | Fritz Arno Wagner |
Edited by | Martha Dübber |
Music by | Wolfgang Zeller |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Robert Koch (German title: Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes, English title: Robert Koch: The Battle Against Death) is a 1939 Nazi propaganda film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss and Viktoria von Ballasko.[1] The film was a biopic of the German pioneering microbiologist Robert Koch (1843–1910). It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin and premiered at the city's Ufa-Palast am Zoo. The film was made by the Tobis Film company, and was also distributed in the United States by the largest German studio UFA.