‘Charité’ Review: Netflix’s Historical Hospital Drama Won’t Fix ‘The Knick’-Sized Hole in Your Heart
One of the most fascinating elements of “Charité,” the new six-part German miniseries now available on Netflix, is the operation theater. As a medical drama set in the late 19th century, this combination lecture hall and surgical venue is as compelling a concept as it is unsanitary. To see a procedure like a tracheotomy or an appendectomy, both in their nascent development stages, presented in such a matter-of-fact way is jarring by design. To see progress and hubris in tandem is one of the main reasons why medical dramas (especially ones set in a distant time) continue to be a regular TV staple.
Whenever “Charité” returns to the exhibition-style setting of that instructional surgery hall, it’s hard not to think of the similar scenes in “The Knick,” a show that by virtue of its styling and being set a decade later took a more modern approach to this subgenre.
Whenever “Charité” returns to the exhibition-style setting of that instructional surgery hall, it’s hard not to think of the similar scenes in “The Knick,” a show that by virtue of its styling and being set a decade later took a more modern approach to this subgenre.
- 4/20/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
COLOGNE, Germany -- Public broadcaster ARD was the big winner at Saturday's German TV Awards, the local equivalent of the Emmys, taking home 10 trophies including the top prize for best TV movie or miniseries for the family comedy Rose.
ARD productions also grabbed two of the other top prizes, with Maria Furtwangler taking the Best Actress award for her performance in long-running detective series Crime Scene: The Nameless Girl and Lars Kraume winning Best Director for the ARD drama "Guten
Morgen, Herr Grothe."
ARD's epic miniseries March of Millions, about the millions of German refugees who fled the advance of the Russian army at the end of WWII, won three awards, including Best Music, Best Set Design and Best Supporting Actor for Gabriela Maria Schmeide.
The Best Actor nod went to Matthias Koeberlin for his starring role in the disaster film Tornado, which aired on commercial channel ProSieben. Pro7 took home a total of four German TV Awards, including best entertainment format for Beat Your Host. ParaMedia
Inc. has acquired U.S.
ARD productions also grabbed two of the other top prizes, with Maria Furtwangler taking the Best Actress award for her performance in long-running detective series Crime Scene: The Nameless Girl and Lars Kraume winning Best Director for the ARD drama "Guten
Morgen, Herr Grothe."
ARD's epic miniseries March of Millions, about the millions of German refugees who fled the advance of the Russian army at the end of WWII, won three awards, including Best Music, Best Set Design and Best Supporting Actor for Gabriela Maria Schmeide.
The Best Actor nod went to Matthias Koeberlin for his starring role in the disaster film Tornado, which aired on commercial channel ProSieben. Pro7 took home a total of four German TV Awards, including best entertainment format for Beat Your Host. ParaMedia
Inc. has acquired U.S.
- 10/1/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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