Charité (TV series)
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.
| Charité | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Dorothee Schön |
| Written by | Dorothee Schön Sabine Thor-Wiedemann (Seasons 1 & 2) Stefan Dähnert John-Hendrik Karsten Christine Hartmann Regine Bielefeldt Thomas Laue (Season 3) |
| Directed by | Sönke Wortmann (Season 1) Anno Saul (Season 2) Christine Hartmann (Season 3) |
| Starring | Alicia von Rittberg Maximilian Meyer-Bretschneider Justus von Dohnányi Matthias Koeberlin Christoph Bach Ernst Stötzner (all above Season 1) Mala Emde Ulrich Noethen Jannik Schümann Luise Wolfram Artjom Gilz Jacob Matschenz (all above Season 2) |
| Theme music composer | Martin Lingnau Ingmar Süberkrüb (Season 1) John Gürtler Hannah von Hübbenet (Season 2) Fabian Römer Matthias Hillebrand-Gonzalez (Season 3) |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Original language | German |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Benjamin Benedict Markus Brunnemann Nico Hofmann Sebastian Werninger |
| Producers | Henriette Lippold Michal Pokorný |
| Cinematography | Holly Fink |
| Editors | Boris Gromatzki Julia Karg Dirk Grau |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production companies | MIA Film UFA Fiction |
| Original release | |
| Network | Das Erste |
| Release | 21 March 2017 – present |
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.