Charité

Then let's start right away.

A bite? I swear to you, Herr Professor.

I have a feeling this is a serial killer.

I'm going to decipher this damn blood.

Will you help me?

Wittenberg, give the young lady 20 blood samples from the bank.

Thank you! - You will have to report back to me.

We'll see how we can work together. Goodbye.

They're closing this border sector. Hey! You stupid pigs!

Get off the roof. Curt, come on.

Curt!

13th August 1961, 3:25 AM

Rapoport.

Mitja? They are closing the border.

What!? - Yes, they are raising barbed wire everywhere.

Limits

There's someone on the roof. Search the building. Come with me!

His heart is racing, breathing is extremely shallow.

Move!

They are cutting up Berlin. - All rumors!

Yes, they are closing the border. - What were you doing on the roof?

Left rib fracture pressing on to the lung.

Punctured thorax!

Alcohol and pointed Cannula! Quickly! Quickly!

If we don't operate, he'll die!

Come on, no matter how much you turn to the West,

your rear stays in the East.

Two over there.

Dr.Bruncken, had a fall. - Hopefully not for the worse.

There are policemen on the stairwell. - Policemen for what?

Dr.Bruncken fractured his rib. - Fractured his rib? Is this even authorized!? Come on.

We are not surgeons.- Yes, by the time they get here, he'd be constricted.

The police are searching the premise.

Take his arm.

Second and third rib.

Cannula please.

Scalpel?

Search the rooms!

Give me the tube.

The pulse is stabilizing.

Allow me! The patients are fast asleep. The Charité is not the barracks!

I want to know what exactly happened here.

He fell. - And because of Curt's fall, the troops are here.

Listen up. - May I know what you're looking for?

A man in a red sweater

was shouting anti-State slogans from the roof

and assaulted the riot policemen.

A woman in a white coat stood by.

We have quite a few of them. Just pick one.

I am on duty tonight and...

no one showed up here.

Is that so? No special appearance?

Now that you say it...

around 2:00 o'clock it got really loud. Excavator, the shouting.

I actually wanted to report the peace disturbance,

but now that you are here...

That's not funny.

We're out here for your protection, doctor

and that of the German Democratic Republic.

Today on a lot will change.

At the Charité as well.

Keep going.

Move out! Next quarters.

Well...Dr.Bruncken, had... - I don't even want to know.

Come on, Sister Petra.

Thank you.

Please stay behind the barrier.

Stay back.

What is this supposed to be?

They will calm them down. - I don't believe you.

A border through Germany! This is absurd.

Absurd? Helmut, this is absolutely necessary.

My wife called me at 3:00 o'clock. I already knew.

Every Sovereign State has a duty to reliably guard it's border

and ensure effective control.

Where did you want to go? - I've to go down there. They won't allow.

As Party Secretary, you were privy to the plans, I assume. Right?

The initiated circle was very small,

so as not to disturb the process.

Better this way. Without good planning, chaos would've broken out.

And what do you call this here?

The Party needs the support of medical profession.

We'll write a letter to all the Head Physicians.

That's good. We have to give people security now, Helmut.

I give security by treating people.

Good morning, gentlemen, duty calls. - Yes.

No, no, Herr Professor, you cannot go from here. The direct path is blocked.

This is nonsense! What kind of a circus is that?

That's how it is.

Nonsense! This is idiotic.

Have a good day, Professor.

I'll be with you in a moment.

This is broken leg is lost!

Surgery is overloaded, doctor. - Yes! So am I.

We have run out of gauze bandages.

Then go get some. - Dr.Nowack?

What is it now? - Simone Weiser, 25 years.

Another suicide? - This was next to her.

Ms.Weiser, Ms.Weiser can you hear me?

Ms.Weiser? Did you take all of the tablets?

Can you hear me? Mrs.Weiser?

She is unconscious. We need to rinse her stomach.

Bring the instruments and saline. Quickly!

Ms.Rösler, it's really too early.

Ms.Rösler, please. - I have to see my husband.

Can I still make it over?

Yesterday we were fighting for the survival of your baby.

It should still be in bed. - They say the border is tight.

Don't worry about him.

Your husband is a citizen of the German Democratic Republic.

Of course he will be allowed to enter his own country.

Stay here. You are in good hands.

Come. Come with me. Don't worry.

The pneumatic drills have been rattling since 1:00 at night

and drilling a trench across Ebertstrasse at the Brandenburg Gate.

The trench is about...

The Bornholmer is tight. Nobody there can come over.

You all are still here? Are you still in mourning?

Radio DDR isn't even putting out reports, just dance music.

Where's Sister Paula?

Sister Iris, Anke, Dorothee? I need a full strength.

None of them turned up for service.

Those from the West can't get through

and the others are probably trying to come over.

Well then. Come with me.

And you too. And I need those bandages.

What...is...

going on?

Your lungs had collapsed.

We restored the pressure in the Pleural area

and the rib fracture is temporarily stabilized.

Out there, what's going on?

Stay still.

Tanks have hit the Bornholmer.

We already had a first suicide attempt in the ward.

No! And what did they tell you?

Well, your empty wine bottle certainly didn't stop them. Yeah!

Some drunk was shouting from the roof,

in a red sweater and threw a bottle at the policemen.

You did very well. Congratulations.

They will just lock us up.

Curt?

This is what I think...

a shot across the bow from the West Berlin sector, right?

The fences will be gone in a week or two.

Can't hold out at all. 1,400 kms of national border.

They have the whole...

long border closed?

It's a barbed wall.

Here you are!

All hell's broken loose in the ward but three doctors...two and a half,

are having a chat.

Technical discussion.

Come on! I need help.

Yes.

You lie still.

I'll be back soon.

Can't you take medical students on a temporary basis?

That is, "if" some of them report back from their holidays.

Did you draw blood? - They need to go to the lab.

I will do it. I will do it. I can take on other tasks.

Did you take a look in the mirror?

Now we've to seriously examine your blood sometime soon.

Your night shift should be over soon since Prokop is no longer here.

How so?

Prokop has an Austrian passport so he can cross the border at any time?

He could, but does he want to?

He is said to have gone to Vienna.

There's no longer a way from the West to come over. We still slipped through.

Police officers took stones off of the Humboldt Bridge.

I've never been so happy to see you. Hurry, hurry. Get your breakfast.

People should know that everything goes on as usual.

The Charité remains the Charité. No matter what happens at the front door.

That's the way it should be.

I've to be at the Charité, I've an appointment. - You may not cross!

Hello? Hello?

Excuse me. Yes, I would like to connect to Vienna.

Professor Prokop. He's at Forensic Medicine.

No, no! This is the Charité from East Berlin. I...

Disconnected. The lines have been overloaded for hours.

When was he supposed to come?

The Professor cannot be reached for now.

He usually calls at least once a day.

This is impossible.

There's a new card again.

We are here, and the women's clinic is here. But the barriers are here.

That means if the someone wants to come, they have to run around the cake.

Around the pudding. - Hm?

We say pudding. - Ah.

Gynecology is more than a kilometer away from us now.

Correct.

Mrs.Roesler?

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to disturb.

Come on in.

My husband can't get in. He is a cross-border commuter.

There are a lot of them.

He is classified as a corrupter.

If Linchen hadn't come too early, I would be with him.

My husband will be harassed here.

Why is that?