Underplayed Gems

Charité (2017)

Charité poster
Directed by
Christine Hartmann, Anno Saul, Sönke Wortmann
Genre
drama television series, medical drama
Country
Germany
Length
4 seasons, 24 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 126 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More series like thisWatch the trailer

or watch the trailer on YouTube

How it feels

The series follows the staff and patients at Berlin's famous Charité hospital across three different historical periods: the late 1800s, World War Two, and the Cold War era. Each season focuses on the medical challenges and social tensions of its time.

slow-burnsolemnearnestschoolroom-likerestraineddensegrimcontemplative

What happens

Charité is a German drama television series. The first season was directed by Sönke Wortmann, and was written by Grimme-Preis winner Dorothee Schön and Sabine Thor-Wiedemann. The season is set during 1888 and the years following at Berlin's Charité hospital. The series premiered on 21 March 2017 on the German channel Das Erste, and was distributed in the USA and UK on Netflix between April 2018 and June 2022. A second series went into production in November 2017, and first aired in Germany in February 2019. This season is directed by Anno Saul and was also written by Schön and Thor-Wiedemann. It is set in the years from 1943 to 1945. The cast was replaced with an entirely new set of actors because the many years elapsed in the storyline meant that all characters were different. This second series began streaming on Netflix in North America in mid-2019 as Charité at War. Season 3 launched on ARD and Netflix Germany on 12 January 2021. The season is set in 1961, the same year that construction began on the Berlin Wall. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? You can browse by genre, country and year, or take this one into the 3D catalogue and ask the Catbot for something closer.