Season 2 • Episode 7
LatestHospital at the End of the City is a popular television series first released in Czechoslovakia in 1977, it featured an ensemble cast and received much viewer praise in central Europe. The series ran from 1977 to 1981 for a total of twenty episodes. The success of the series inspired the German television series The Black Forest Clinic.
Acting
Ensemble chemistry that defined Czech television.
Writing
Dietl's scripts navigated censorship with surgical precision.
Production
State-funded sets with surprisingly lived-in authenticity.
Creator
Jaroslav Dietl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Black Forest Clinic became West Germany's longest-running drama, while the original remains untranslated and obscure outside Central Europe.
Creator Jaroslav Dietl had to submit scripts to five different censorship boards; the hospital setting allowed illness to metaphorically represent societal decay without explicit political commentary.
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