Hospital at the End of the City (1978)

Original title

Nemocnice na kraji města

Directed by

Jaroslav Dudek

Genre

drama film, medical drama, drama fiction

Country

Czechoslovakia

Length

2 seasons, 20 episodes

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The show follows doctors and patients in a large hospital in a small Czechoslovak city. It focuses on their personal lives and professional struggles over the course of many episodes.

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What happens

Hospital at the End of the City (Czech: Nemocnice na kraji města) is a Czechoslovak television series first released in 1978 by Czechoslovak Television. It featured an ensemble cast and received much viewer praise in Central Europe. The series, with a screenplay by Jaroslav Dietl and directed by Jaroslav Dudek, ran from 1978 to 1981 for a total of twenty episodes. The show's success inspired the German television series The Black Forest Clinic. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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