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Charité at War (2017)

Charité at War poster
Original title
Charité
Genre
drama
Country
Germany
Length
4 seasons, 24 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 126 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The series follows doctors and patients at Berlin's Charité hospital during World War Two. It shows how the war and Nazi policies affect the people who work and receive care there.

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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)

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