Berlin, 1943: Shortly before the birth of her first child, medical student Anni Waldhausen passes her exams with the famous surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch. The test patient is the young soldier Lohmann, whose bullet-laced thigh Sauerbruch was able to save thanks to a special surgical technique. Even the newsreel is filming. Everyone witnesses Sauerbruch’s great art – and his choleric temper, which even his wife and assistant Margot, who is thirty years his junior, is not safe from. Anni and her husband Artur, senior physician at the children’s clinic, are considered a model Aryan couple: young, healthy and compliant with the system. Artur is exempt from military service because he conducts research that is important to the war effort. Artur doesn’t tell Anni that his subjects are disabled children, so-called “Reich Committee Children”. Their life becomes complicated when Anni’s younger brother Otto moves into their official apartment. The young ensign has temporarily returned home from the front to complete his medical studies in the Charité student company. He hides his traumatic war experiences behind his carefree demeanor. Otto is assigned to surgery as a trainee and soon becomes popular there. He wins the heart of the young Nazi sister Christel. The war-disabled nurse Martin, who as a former soldier is the only one who can see behind Otto’s funny facade, also becomes friends with him. Anni herself wants to work on her doctoral thesis on the self-mutilation of soldiers until she gives birth. Her doctoral supervisor is the Nazi official and head of psychiatry, Max de Crinis. He suspects that the newly operated soldier Lohmann could have taught himself his “home shot”. Despite Sauerbruch’s resistance, he ensures that he and Anni can examine Lohmann on behalf of the Wehrmacht. When the noose around Lohmann’s neck tightens during his questioning and he is threatened with proceedings for undermining military strength, Otto makes a false statement in order to exonerate his former comrade. Nevertheless, Lohmann is charged. Otto blames Anni, who doesn’t question her doctoral supervisor’s ruthless actions, for this. Their heated argument about this ends abruptly because Anni goes into labor. She is losing a lot of blood. Mother and child are in danger. Contributing music: Hannah Hübbenet, John Gürtler, Jan Miserre Camera: Holly Fink Book: Dorothee Schön, Dr. Sabine Thor-Wiedemann Director: Anno Saul Actors Anni Waldhausen: Mala Emde Prof. Sauerbruch: Ulrich Noethen Otto Marquardt: Jannik Schümann Margot Sauerbruch: Luise Wolfram Artur Waldhausen: Artjom Gilz Martin Schelling: Jacob Matschenz Sister Christel: Frida-Lovisa Hamann Sister Käthe: Susanne Böwe Prof. De Crinis: Lukas Miko Maria Fritsch: Sarah Bauerett Paul Lohmann: Ludwig Simon Prof. Bessau: Peter Kremer Peter Sauerbruch: Maximilian Klas Prof. Stoeckel: Bernd Birkhahn Landlady: Jana Bauke and others
Charité Season 2 Episode 1: Home Shot – Review & Recap
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