Hospital at the End of the City is a popular television series first released in Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

 in 1977, it featured an ensemble cast and received much viewer praise in central Europe

Central Europe

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. 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

The Black Forest Clinic

The Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel.The series'...

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Plot

The series followed the story of Dr. Sova and his colleagues at the hospital. The series is a drama and is based on a mix of the lives of the doctors and the patients.

Cast

"Nemocnice" featured a cast of actors, many who were very big stars at the time in Czechoslovakia. The cast included; Ladislav Chudík, Josef Abrhám

Josef Abrhám

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, Miloš Kopecký

Miloš Kopecký

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, Iva Janžurová

Iva Janžurová

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, Eliška Balzerová, Jana Štěpánková, Ladislav Frej and others.

Sequel

A sequel series was developed in 2003 called Hospital at the End of the City After Twenty Years , it got mixed reviews and starred most of the original cast. In autumn 2008, a second sequel will be broadcast.