Die Geisel der Menschheit

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The...

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime...

A propagandistic melodrama recounting the dangers and horrors of venereal disease.

A wife and her husband have both contracted syphilis and don't know how to tell each other.

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn...

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.

A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a...

A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is...

A tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees.

A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.

This educational film combines medical information and story to teach the viewers about the prevention and treatment of syphilis. The four episodes...

Jurgen Vanderspek (a.k.a. James Vanderbacon) is a senior in high school. He is a loudmouthed macho who loves to tell juicy anecdotes about his sexual...

Toni van Eyck became known with her leading role in this early "Aufklärungsfilm" (education film) Gefahren der Liebe/A Woman Branded (Eugen...

A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.

Chicken farmer John Lloyd learns the importance of blood tests when he gives his pregnant wife a dose of the clap after a one-night fling with a...

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

Tuula, Mirri and Aino are roommates at a nurse college. At her hospital internship, Aino works with Dr. Eero who has had an affair with Viivi, the...

A doctor who believes that only the immoral catch syphilis reconsiders his stance.