Drama

Charité

Step into the halls of the prestigious Berlin hospital, Charité. Home to many of history’s great medical pioneers, the fictionalized lives of doctors, nurses and patients become intertwined in this charming, award-winning depiction. From Walter Presents, in German with English subtitles.

Compassion / Barmherzigkeit

50m 7s

Ida Lenze drags herself to the Berlin Charite with acute appendicitis, where young staff doctor Emil Behring saves her life – yet he still can’t catch the eye of Robert Koch. Meanwhile, Crown Prince Friedrich may have cancer of the larynx.

Episodes

  • Compassion / Barmherzigkeit: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Compassion / Barmherzigkeit

    S1 E1 - 50m 7s

    Ida Lenze drags herself to the Berlin Charite with acute appendicitis, where young staff doctor Emil Behring saves her life – yet he still can’t catch the eye of Robert Koch. Meanwhile, Crown Prince Friedrich may have cancer of the larynx.

  • Weather for a Kaiser / Kaiserwetter: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Weather for a Kaiser / Kaiserwetter

    S1 E2 - 50m 53s

    Ida suffers under the strict thumb of Deaconess Matron Martha but catches the eye of several suitors. The Reich suffers upheaval with the death of Friedrich, and Behring finds favor with the clinic’s director.

  • The Light of the World / Das Licht der Welt: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Light of the World / Das Licht der Welt

    S1 E3 - 49m 36s

    Ida struggles with her feelings for Georg Tischendorf and Dr. Behring as thousands of physicians from around the world arrive in Berlin for the World Medical Convention to hear Koch speak.

  • Miracle Cure / Wundermittel: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Miracle Cure / Wundermittel

    S1 E4 - 50m 39s

    Treating contagious cases carries its dangers: Nurse Therese comes down with TB. On Ida's urgent encouragement, Koch dares to take the next step with his tuberculine.

  • Twilight of the Gods / Götterdämmerung: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Twilight of the Gods / Götterdämmerung

    S1 E5 - 49m 48s

    News of Koch's miracle drug travels the world. Berlin is overrun by consumption patients and doctors, but the tuberculine fails to heal more and more patients. Meanwhile, Behring's remedy does heal a diphtheria patient.

  • Turning Point / Zeitenwende: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Turning Point / Zeitenwende

    S1 E6 - 50m 57s

    Koch becomes an outcast, and his failure also unjustly discredits Ehrlich and Behring's work. But when Virchow gives a public endorsement of Behring's remedy it throws Behring into a manic euphoria, inconsiderate of everyone around him.

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