Fourth season of “Charité”
ARD hit series jumps to the year 2049
Moritz Führmann and Sesede Terziyan in the fourth season of the hospital series “Charité”.
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The successful ARD series “Charité” continues. A new season is already in the making, taking the story to the year 2049.
The story of the most famous hospital in Germany is continued. As the production company UFA Fiction announced on Friday, a fourth season of the successful ARD series “Charité” will be filmed. A total of six new episodes will be produced. The story is transported into the future: The action takes place in the year 2049, climate change is bringing inhuman temperatures to the capital and a new health care reform is dividing society. The focus continues to be the world-famous university hospital, which is still a stronghold of medicine and research.
According to the announcement, filming has already begun in Lisbon. The cast includes the actors Sesede Terziyan (42), Angelina Häntsch (39), Gina Haller (36), Moritz Führmann (44) and Timur Isik (42). Johanna Kraus, head of fiction at MDR, explains the new episodes: “With the fourth season ‘Charité’ we are opening a window into the future and giving an outlook on the fascinating history of medicine over the next two decades.” The last take is expected in Portugal in mid-April, the broadcast dates in the first and Arte are planned for the year 2024. The young filmmaker Esther Bialas takes the place on the director’s chair.
That’s what the first three seasons of “Charité” were about
The first season of the series, directed by Sönke Wortmann (63), was released in 2017. It deals with the medical advances at the end of the 19th century around the legendary virologist Robert Koch (1843-1910). Season two by director Anno Saul (59) plays at the time of National Socialism and is mainly about the surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875-1951). The third and so far last season is about the time when the Wall was being built in Berlin and tells the work of the forensic doctor Otto Prokop (1921-2009), the pediatrician Ingeborg Rapoport (1912-2017) and the gynecologist Helmut Kraatz (1902-1983).