---
title: 'Robert Koch (1939)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Hans Steinhoff'
released: '1939-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 113
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/robert-koch-1939'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031868/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Robert Koch (1939)

1939 · 113 min · Drama · Germany

Original title: Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

## Synopsis

Robert Koch is a 1939 Nazi propaganda film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss and Viktoria von Ballasko. 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 UFA.

## Credits

- **Producer:** [Emil Jannings](https://cinepixo.com/people/emil-jannings)
- **Director:** [Hans Steinhoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-steinhoff)
- **Screenplay:** [Lotte Neumann](https://cinepixo.com/people/lotte-neumann)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Wolfgang Zeller](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolfgang-zeller)
- **Director of Photography:** [Fritz Arno Wagner](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-arno-wagner)
- **Editor:** [Martha Dübber](https://cinepixo.com/people/martha-dubber)

## Cast

- [Paul Dahlke](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-dahlke)
- [Willy Kaiser-Heyl](https://cinepixo.com/people/willy-kaiser-heyl)
- [Erich Dunskus](https://cinepixo.com/people/erich-dunskus)
- [Hubert von Meyerinck](https://cinepixo.com/people/hubert-von-meyerinck)
- [Gertrud Wolle](https://cinepixo.com/people/gertrud-wolle)
- [Bernhard Minetti](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernhard-minetti)
- [Josef Sieber](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-sieber)
- [Rudolf Klein-Rogge](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-klein-rogge)
- [Herbert Gernot](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-gernot)
- [Robert Forsch](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-forsch)
- [Karl Hannemann](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-hannemann)
- [Emil Jannings](https://cinepixo.com/people/emil-jannings)
- [Werner Pledath](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-pledath)
- [Peter Elsholtz](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-elsholtz)
- [Paul Rehkopf](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-rehkopf)

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