Five things to watch this weekend
From Nazi-German hospital drama Charité at War and modern warfare drama The Wolf's Call on Netflix to murder mystery One Dollar on Showmax, the streaming is on
28 June 2019 - 05:07
Charité at War — Netflix
A hospital drama with a twist, this German series focuses on the trials and tribulations of the staff at a medical institute in Berlin during the last years of World War 2. There are the usual genre tropes of saving and losing lives but there’s also some spice added by the fact that this is Nazi-era Germany: things like eugenics are on the agenda and serve to test the moral rectitude of many of the good doctors struggling to fulfil the obligations of the Hippocratic oath under the rule of a fascist regime...
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