# Charité (2017)

> A penniless young woman works off her hospital bill at Berlin's famous Charité and discovers her passion for medicine among the city's brilliant physicians.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/61934

## Facts

- Seasons: 4
- Episodes: 24
- Episode runtime: 45 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, history
- Network: Das Erste, ARTE, ARTE
- Cast: Alicia von Rittberg, Mala Emde, Nina Gummich, Max Bretschneider, Ulrich Noethen, Nina Kunzendorf, Justus von Dohnányi, Jannik Schümann
- TMDB rating: 7.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5337806/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Tone: earnest, absorbing, determined, melancholic

## What critics say

Audiences rate the series positively, praising its historical detail and its portrayal of a young woman entering medicine in 1888 Berlin, with ratings softening in the final season.

## Synopsis

Charité (2017-2024) is a German historical medical drama series created for Das Erste and ARTE, with its four seasons of six episodes each told as a continuous story. Set in 1888 Berlin, it follows Ida Lenze (Alicia von Rittberg), a penniless and self-determined young woman who must work off the cost of her treatment at the world-famous Charité Hospital. Her engine is a hunger to learn medicine in an era that bars women from it, pushing her against rigid hierarchies and the demands of the wards. Alongside her, Mala Emde plays Anni Waldhausen, Nina Gummich plays Dr. Ella Wendt, and Ulrich Noethen plays the surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch, while Justus von Dohnanyi appears as the bacteriologist Robert Koch. Each episode mixes ward crises and surgical procedures with personal rivalries and romance. The tone is earnest and absorbing, with a sense of scientific ambition and social constraint. Its production is a German prestige period piece with polished period detail. Fans of The Knick, Babylon Berlin and Call the Midwife will find resonance in its blend of medical procedure, historical texture and a female protagonist pushing against her era.

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