Scripted series · ARTE
Charité
A hospital that glows with fame inspires a young woman to shine.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Alicia von Rittberg
Ida Lenze
6 eps
Mala Emde
Anni Waldhausen
6 eps
Nina Gummich
Dr. Ella Wendt
6 eps
Max Bretschneider
Georg Tischendorf
6 eps
Ulrich Noethen
Ferdinand Sauerbruch
6 eps
Nina Kunzendorf
Dr. Ingeborg Rapoport
6 eps
Justus von Dohnányi
Robert Koch
6 eps
Jannik Schümann
Otto Marquardt
6 eps
Philipp Hochmair
Otto Prokop
6 eps
Matthias Koeberlin
Emil Behring
6 eps
Luise Wolfram
Margot Sauerbruch
6 eps
Uwe Ochsenknecht
Helmut Kraatz
6 eps
Christoph Bach
Paul Ehrlich
6 eps
Artjom Gilz
Artur Waldhausen
6 eps
Max Wagner
Dr. Alexander Nowack
6 eps
Ernst Stötzner
Rudolf Virchow
6 eps
Jacob Matschenz
Martin Schelling
6 eps
Franz Hartwig
Curt Bruncken
6 eps
Matthias Brenner
Ernst von Bergmann
6 eps
Frida Lovisa Hamann
Schwester Christel
6 eps
Patricia Meeden
Schwester Ariana
6 eps
Thomas Loibl
Bernhard Spinola
6 eps
Susanne Böwe
Schwester Käthe
6 eps
Hildegard Schroedter
Gerda
6 eps
Emilia Schüle
Hedwig Freiberg
6 eps
Lukas Miko
Max de Crinis
6 eps
Uwe Preuss
Fritz Krug
6 eps
Ramona Kunze-Libnow
Schwester Martha
6 eps
Hans Löw
Professor Adolphe Jung
6 eps
Thimo Meitner
Wittenberg
6 eps
Klara Deutschmann
Schwester Therese
6 eps
Sarah Bauerett
Maria Fritsch
6 eps
Anatole Taubman
Prof. Dr. Mitja Rapoport
6 eps
Tanja Schleiff
Wärterin Edith
6 eps
Marek Harloff
Fritz Kolbe
6 eps
Nicholas Reinke
Lehmann
6 eps
Monika Oschek
Wärterin Stine
6 eps
Peter Kremer
Georg Bessau
6 eps
Peter Miklusz
Hajo Brennscheidt
6 eps
Daniel Sträßer
Heinrich von Minckwitz
6 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Charité actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Charité reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Berlin, 1888. After penniless Ida’s life is saved at the Charité Hospital she must work off the treatment costs. While she becomes acquainted with the most brilliant physicians of this era at the world-famous hospital, the self-determined young woman discovers her passion for medicine.
The run
Seasons
4 seasons · 24 episodes.
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Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20176 episodes
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
20176 episodes
6.5IMDbAt Berlin's Charité hospital in 1888, Ida finds romance, a path to her dream job and an inside look into cures for tuberculosis and diphtheria.
Best episode · S01E05 Twilight of the Gods
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
20196 episodes
6.4IMDbIn 1943, the staff at Berlin's Charité hospital struggle against the effects of World War II and the Nazi regime, including eugenic medical practices.
Best episode · S02E01 Blighty Wound
Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
20216 episodes
6.8IMDb
Season 4 · Complete
Season 4
20246 episodes
5.0IMDb
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Compassion
Pathologist Virchow tries to uphold his liberal values in a time of upcoming nationalism. Doctor Koch continues his work on battling the rampant tuberculosis. Von Behring tries, in vain at first, to join his lab while Jewish Doctor Ehrlich is welcomed for his work on colorizing cells. Ms. Lenze recovers after an appendicitis but has to work off the fees for her treatment by working as a nurse.
S01E03
The Light of the World
Koch reveals big news at the congress while Ehrlich struggles to find a doctor to deliver his wife's breech baby. Tischendorf and Ida's romance blooms.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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Christine Hartmann
Writer
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Sabine Thor-Wiedemann
Writer
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Dorothee Schön
Writer
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John-Hendrik Karsten
Writer
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Andreas Drost
Writer
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Thomas Laue
Writer
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Tanja Bubbel
Writer
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Stefan Dähnert
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Created by
- Christine OttoCreator
- Dorothee SchönCreator
Writing
- Christine HartmannWriter
- Sabine Thor-WiedemannWriter
- Dorothee SchönWriter
- John-Hendrik KarstenWriter
- Andreas DrostWriter
- Thomas LaueWriter
Direction
- Esther BialasDirector
- Christine HartmannDirector
- Anno SaulDirector
- Sönke WortmannDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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