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Then let's start right away.

A bite? - I swear to you.

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 depot.

When I get back you'll have to report back.

Then we see how we can work together and if.

They close the sector border. Hey you stupid pigs!

Come on, get off the roof. Curt, come on.

* Telefonklingeln *

Mitja? They close the border.

Yes, they pull up barbed wire everywhere .

Ella Wendt Prof. Dr. Otto Prokop

Stranger on the roof. Search buildings. Come along!

Heart is racing, breathing is extremely shallow.

More quickly!

They cut Berlin up. - All rumors.

Yes, they close the border.

What were you doing there on the roof?

Left rib fracture. Presses on the lungs.

Alcohol and pointed cannula! Fast!

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

Come on, no matter how much you turn west,

Your bum stays in the east.

Two here.

Dr. Bruncken, he's dying. - It doesn't die that quickly.

There are policemen in the stairwell. - What kind of cops?

Dr. Wendt dotted ...

The Wendt punctured? She can do it ... Come on.

* Menacing music *

We are not surgeons. By the time it is there, it has collapsed.

The police are searching the house.

Take your arm.

Second and third rib.

Cannula please.

* Exciting music *

* Air escapes. *

Scalpel.

Search room!

The pulse stabilizes.

Allow me. The patients sleep.

The Charite is not a barracks.

I want to know what exactly happened.

He fell, and because of Curt's fall, the troops aren't here.

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

A man in a red sweater.

He shouted anti-class slogans from the roof

and assaulted the riot police .

A woman in a white coat stood by.

We have a few of them. Pick one.

So I was on duty tonight and ...

no one showed up here.

So no special occurrences?

Now that you say it. But.

Around two o'clock it got really loud. Excavator. Vice.

I actually wanted to report such a disturbance of the peace ,

but now you are there.

It's not funny.

It's out there for your protection, doctor

and to that of the German Democratic Republic.

From today a lot will change.

Also at the Charite.

Keep going.

March off! Next station.

The Dr. Bruncken, who had ... I don't want to know exactly.

Come on, Sister Petra.

Thanks.

* Angry voices *

Please stay behind the barrier.

Stay back.

What is that supposed to be?

That calms down. - Don't believe yourself.

A border through Germany. That's absurd.

Absurd? Helmut, that is absolutely necessary.

My wife called me at three o'clock . Nobody knew.

Every sovereign state has limits to reliably guard it

and to ensure effective control .

Where do you want to go?

In the Sonnenallee. I live there.

As the party secretary, you were privy to the plans, I assume?

The circle of initiates was very small,

so as not to disturb the process.

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

And what do you call it now?

The party needs the support of the medical profession.

We'll write a letter for all chief physicians.

OK then. We have to give people security now, Helmut.

I give security by treating people.

Good morning, gentlemen, duty calls.

Nah, you have to go outside. The direct route is blocked.

This can not be true. What kind of a circus is that?

But that's how it is.

Nonsense! Nonsense like that.

Have a nice day, Professor.

I'll be with you in a moment.

The break has lost nothing with us.

The surgery is overloaded. - Yes me too.

We have run out of gauze bandages.

Then go get some. - Dr. Nowack?

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

Also jumped? - That was next to her.

Mrs. Weiser, can you hear me?

Did you take all of the tablets?

Can you hear me? Mrs. Weiser?

Nice to stay here. We rinse the stomach.

Bring cutlery and saline. Fast!

Ms. Rösler, it's really too early.

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

Can I still make it over there?

Yesterday we were still fighting for the survival of your baby.

You are still in bed. They say the border is tight.

Do not worry.

Her husband is a citizen of the German Democratic Republic.

Of course he is allowed to enter his country.

Stay here. You are in good hands here.

Come. Come with me. Do not worry.

(Radio) " The pneumatic drills have been rattling since about one o'clock tonight

and drill a trench across Ebertstrasse

at the Brandenburg Gate.

The ditch is about ... "

The Bornholmer is tight. Nobody comes over there.

Who is running Rias here? Are you still with consolation?

Radio DDR doesn't bring any reports, just dance music.

Where's Sister Paula?

Sister Iris, Anke, Dorothee?

I need all my strength.

None of them turned up for service.

Those from the west can't get through

and the others probably tried to come over.

Well. Then come with me.

And she too. And I need the sanitary towels.

(gasps) What ... is ...

happens?

Your lungs have collapsed.

We have restored the pressure in the pleural space

and poorly stabilized the broken rib .

(gasps) Out there, what's going on?

Stop.

Tanks have hit the Bornholmer .

We already have a first suicide attempt on the ward.

(gasps) They really pulled it off.

Your empty wine bottle didn't stop them.

The sparrows whistle from the roofs,

that guy in the red sweater

threw a bottle at the cops.

You did it extremely well . Congratulations.

They just lock us up.

Now that's just a lesson.

A shot across the bow of the West Berlin Senate, right?

The fences will be gone in a week or two .

Can't hold out at all. 1400 kilometers of the national border.

They have the whole ...

long border closed?

So it was just called in the Rias.

Here you are.

All hell breaks loose on the ward and three doctors, two and a half,

have a chat.

Technical discussion.

Come. I need her.

And.

You lie still.

I'll be back soon.

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

If there are still some reporting back from the holidays.

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

I do that. I take on other tasks.

Did you look in the mirror?

Not that we have to seriously examine your blood anytime soon .

Your night shifts should have finished

when Prokop is no longer there.

How so? Prokop has an Austrian passport.

He can cross the border at any time. He can, but does he want that?

He is said to have gone to Vienna.

There is no longer any coming over from the West either.

We still slipped through.

Police officers tore stones out of the Humboldt Bridge.

I've never been so happy to see you. Fast. Breakfast.

People should know that everything is going on as usual.

The Charite remains the Charite. No matter what happens in front of the door.

That's the way it is.

(Woman) But I have to go to the Charite, I have an appointment.

* Angry voices *

(Cop) Go back.

Hi there? Hi there?

Mediation? Yes, I wanted to reach Vienna.

Professor Prokop. He's at forensic medicine.

No no. Here is the Charite in East Berlin. I...

Interrupted. The lines have been overloaded for hours.

When did he want to come back?

The professor cannot be determined so precisely .

But he usually calls at least once a day.

That's impossible.

There's a new card again.

We are here, the women's clinic here.

But the barriers are here.

When salvation wants to come to us

then she has to drive around the outside of the cake.

About the pudding. Hm?

We say pudding. Ah.

Gynecology is more than a kilometer away from us now .

I agree.

Mrs. Roesler.

Sorry. I didn't mean to disturb.

Come in.

My husband can't come here. He is a cross-border commuter.

There are a lot of them.

He is classified as a defiler.

If Linchen hadn't come too early , I would have been with him a long time.

My husband is blacklisted here .

Why then?

As a journalist at the Tagesspiegel , he has articulated that he

looks critically at what is going on in this country .

Mhm.

We received anonymous threats and were called parasites.

This is no longer our country.

I know.

I fled in 1938.

Are you a Jew? My mother was Jewish.

I then went to America

and met my husband there.

And then we have each other there

built a new home.

And why are you here again?

Because we had to go under McCarthy .

I actually never wanted to go back to Germany.

But my husband convinced me that the GDR is a different state.

No longer the land that killed six million Jews

but a new beginning.

I don't know if the new beginning is so mature.

Yes, it may be. But I like the approach.

The thought that togetherness ...

for each other ...

That we can build a new state together

who is there for everyone.

Yes, but this state no longer gives us a chance as a family.

And that's why we have to look for a new home.

Why did you want to kill yourself ?

Because the loved one is over there?

I would like to go home now.

The colleagues from psychiatry estimate

when you can go.

I didn't mean to kill myself! I'm not crazy!

Now put on a fresh nightgown, okay?

Dr. Nowack, would you come please?

What's the problem?

The patient has breasts and something like a penis.

But that doesn't make me a monster.

Nobody claims that either. - Then why are you staring at me like that?

* The door is opened. *

And? How are you?

Those out there won't hesitate to shoot anything

what opposes the state.

And you ask how am I?

Take it easy. Nobody shoots.

I saw with my own eyes then

like she did in June '53

shot at their own people .

The civil uprising was a completely different chapter.

No.

That was the first step.

That limit out there ...

will kill a lot more people.

Senkaxe and all the others ...

did it just right.

I should have left long ago.

I'm actually very happy that you are still here.

And so is the Charite.

We need every strength here right now .

* Menacing music *

I'm sorry, but that's what we have to do.

I do n't know where to put someone like that.

Mrs. Weiser, excuse the back and forth, yes?

It's pretty busy here right now.

According to your passport you are a woman

and there is no discussion about that.

You stay here on the ward.

And you will first regain your strength.

Are you trying to sleep, are you?

Your body needs this now.

Why are you doing that? This is a case for psychiatry.

The woman has a physical problem.

And a psychological one. She is suicidal.

Because your environment makes life hell

as soon as someone gets wind.

You saw what's going on.

She is afraid. And we have to take it from her.

And how do we do that?

Shall we put a drainage pump on her too?

As if we didn't have enough problems.

(Gerda) We need ten saline solutions.

The patient on seven is still on pain medication.

The patient on the two remains sober.

What do we do with the madwoman now?

Discuss this with Mrs. Wendt.

The infusion for the one must be renewed.

Ah no.

What does the company want?

What was that this morning?

I ask myself the same thing.

How should this go on now ?

Doctor Nowack.

Your flippant tone this morning towards the authorities.

I know your nerves are on edge.

It is not without what the Charite is currently being asked to do .

But subversive tendencies are of course notifiable.

Doctors like you are

who keep business here

do not put their own good first.

If I can do something for the department.

Send a new senior physician.

The ship urgently needs a captain again.

Dr. Nowack, I need you on the five.

* Exciting music *

Any news from Professor Prokop?

If at least he'd left his wife here.

I have to show him my results.

The haptoglobin levels are

sharply increased in all samples from cancer patients .

My thesis has been confirmed.

Then all you need is the cross-checks.

Yes. Can't you call Vienna again?

Frau Dammrau tried it all day .

Professor Prokop cannot be reached.

* Exciting music *

And Kennedy is silent.

That won't change either.

The wall only keeps the Americans from getting into trouble.

Good morning, Professor. - Dr. Pan.

The events come thick and fast. - We made it.

Yes. - Dr. Cellar, good morning.

Good Morning. - Good Morning.

Sorry darling.

We still had one admission from the delivery room.

No problem, you are here now.

The children can stay at the summer camp.

Thank goodness that's settled. A huge adventure.

It's devastating. This staff loss.

And.

Far too few doctors, too few nurses.

Madam, are you also struggling with staff losses?

I'm struggling more with the delays

caused by the distance between departments.

Dear colleague, you might explain to your wife

the established structures of our Charite.

Helmut, my wife is only interested in the matter.

What do the reticulocytes do? It's going wonderfully.

That's nice.

Sorry.

Isn't Kraatz an expert on hermaphroditism?

Maybe we can show them to him.

We're moving them to psychiatry.

I don't think he's empathetic.

Its barracks tone is notorious.

Thank you for your support. - Very much. Good luck.

* Ringing *

Dear comrades, as you know

have on Sunday night

Riot police construction brigades from across the country

erected a protective wall.

Pah, protective wall.

The annoying bloodletting of Charite employees

has come to an end.

The border is closed.

* Everyone murmurs. *

The Charite is due to its exposed location

particularly affected by the new situation.

We are now border area.

For our protection, the parts of the building will become the Humboldthafen

and Alexanderufer walled up on the water side.

Was?

(Dr. Keller) What exactly does that mean?

That means quite simply

that each and every one of us from now

carries double responsibility

for a stable political situation

and for orderly medical processes.

We are what we always have been:

a tight-knit community.

Probably more of a community of fate!

To strengthen our position , we have written a letter

which all senior doctors should sign:

"Charite doctors welcome the building of the wall."

Pah. It's getting more and more absurd.

* Beat *

Let me quote from it.

"August 13th

has caused a turning point in the life of our faculty .

All doctors and employees in our clinics and institutes

can now without interference from outside influences

do their duty.

We thankfully acknowledge the commitment of our employees,

which ensured that our population did not in a second

had to do without medical care .

In accordance with the Senate Policy Statement

we call on all employees and students

to actively participate in the maintenance of world peace

and to draw the right lessons from German history . "

This wall locks up those who stay dead here.

I call you to order.

Anyone who wanted to leave is long gone. That's what it looks like.

I see it a little differently. He's back again.

The Charite is the first hospital in the country.

If we give up, the lights will go out here.

Not just because of a power failure.

We have it in hand

the Charite scientifically and medically

to be lifted to where it once was.

250 years of mercy.

The Charite is not about politics.

It's about the patient. You can't let them down now.

Well, the next shift starts in ten minutes.

Exactly. Here we go. Get to work.

Professor?

Professor.

I don't even know what to say.

Make sure you can talk to Kraatz.

Professor?

If you were so kind

to sign the letter of the medical profession .

That would be a signal.

I only sign section reports.

I'm here again. That should be enough.

You can't mix medicine with politics.

Professor, we have a gender mismatch.

The woman claims to be a woman

but is noticeable in the genital area and resembles a man.

Have the patient brought to me. Yes.

Thanks for the interview too.

"Nobody has any intention of building a wall." Is not it?

On me.

And? What about the blood tests?

Has Wittenberg picked something decent for you?

All tumor patients examined

have increased haptoglobin concentrations.

I tested them photometrically and believe

that the cause of the elevated values

may already be in the inflammatory reaction .

No tissue breakdown with metastasis?

* She said no. *

It happens much earlier.

An early test.

That would be an achievement.

Are there any more samples? I don't have enough blood for that.

Wittenberg puts something together.

Frau Dammrau, call Inspector Hertweck.

I have interesting news for him.

Yes, maybe you can put me through to the right department.

Listen, it's about a certain Nils Rösler.

He is a journalist for the Tagesspiegel.

Yes, I know what's going on right now, I don't live on the moon.

Look, the woman has just finished

gave birth to their child .

And.

Yes I understand. Yes. Yes. Yes, thanks for the answer.

Inge, what are you doing there?

I am trying to help a patient with her newborn.

The man is a cross-border commuter.

Your own fault if you are the stooge of the West Berlin capitalists.

He's on the black list.

The woman is likely to have difficulty leaving.

What have you got to do with it

I thought we wanted to go to the concert?

Yes, but this is about a young family now .

No matter what kind of attitude they have,

it is not our place to separate them.

Can you put in a word with Wollenweber ?

So that she comes to a man who is boycotting the state?

It's about the child.

It cannot help the conviction of his parents.

Darling you may be an excellent doctor

but a pathetic politician.

You're welcome. * He laughs. *

Otherwise I'll do it.

Don't mess with woolen weavers too .

I think Kraatz is enough.

Yes, and I'll do it again

that stubborn guy!

Yes, it is a cruel game of hide-and-seek that you live there.

I suppose your parents brought you up

to meet the norm.

It's embarrassing too.

No it is not.

You know,

God has his little sheep ...

created in all possible colors .

And also in all possible forms.

For most people, unfortunately, I'm a nerd from God.

A sick monster.

But you are not.

They are a special medical case.

You are dealing with an abnormality in your sexual characteristics.

I've been grappling with it for a long time

and exchange ideas with colleagues internationally .

And in the field of hermaphroditism,

so of hermaphrodite,

we are further than you think.

Were you raised as a girl?

I am a woman.

That's a very clear advantage,

that you are so sure of yourself.

That helps us a lot.

You wanna help me?

"Dear colleague, would you please go back to your wife

explain the grown structures of the Charite? "

With pleasure. Can we do that with a glass of cognac, please ?

Only if you call Wollenweber.

Inge, no.

Average,

you were allowed to leave the USA and I was able to follow you.

Imagine if they didn't let me leave the country.

Would you have let a line separate our family?

in our experience

it is a genetic defect,

in which androgens are increasingly formed in the adrenal cortex,

so male sex hormones.

I am not a man.

The first step would be a chromosome analysis.

At the same time, we would measure the hormone status in your blood.

And if there is a need for further clarification ,

we would make a small cut in your stomach

and see if you have ovaries, i.e. ovaries.

You know, I loved doing gymnastics as a kid .

I was actually really good.

And then my parents got me

suddenly freed from physical education .

How old were you there? Eight.

Mhm.

Since that day I have known that I am different.

Since then I've been paying attention to every gesture I make

every word I say so I don't go wrong.

I don't want to go on like this.

To give us a complete picture

a lot of time will pass.

I will have to consult colleagues

from psychiatry, from surgery.

It will cost you a lot of strength.

But if you hold out

then the probability is very high

that I am your external sexual characteristics

subject to correction.

The corpse from the Waldviertel near Vienna

has exactly the same characteristics.

One and the same perpetrator? Mmm.

But how can that be?

A traveler, maybe a trader?

A diplomat with multiple passports like me.

Maybe it's me

He finds his victims at the Heuriger or at the Schwof.

Get them drunk, as the toxicological analysis shows.

And then ... he bites.

The tooth samples from Leipzig and Vienna match.

The man has very noticeable teeth. Very noticeable.

And he could strike again at any time .

* Exciting music *

You should have seen it, the Wittenberg.

He really gave Lehmann a negative.

Yes. Nevertheless.

This letter is a cheek.

I hope my colleagues do not allow themselves to be instrumentalized.

To lie down.

You know what?

I think I have n't even thanked you

that you saved my life

Right, there was something else.

* Dreamy piano music *

A patient complained

that she doesn't want to be in the room with a hermaphrodite .

She would rather sleep in the corridor.

But that's silly.

Yes, you tell her that.

Yes, I'll tell her that then.

Be glad that you are in bed.

(Walter Ulbricht) "My dear citizens

of the German Democratic Republic

and dear friends in West Germany

and West Berlin,

eventful days are behind us.

Here and there the waves rose a bit,

they gradually smooth out.

Those of Schöneberg and Bonn

artificially stoked excitement has subsided.

Of course we must continue to be vigilant

but life goes on smoothly. "

I'll do that myself.

Are you still here or already here again?

Am almost done.

And? Have you been successful?

Not quite.

Show me.

The haptoglobin values are increased in all samples.

Just.

That's the problem.

Blood sample number 23.

The patient suffers from rheumatism.

Not cancer? * She said no. *

Did you only discover the similarities in rheumatism?

I need more cross checks.

With a cold, for example ...

Wittenberg, poor! We need your blood!

Dr. Wendt is on the trail of an interesting thesis.

We have to make it big.

Wittenberg, do it now.

In terms of science , nothing should be too bad.

Go ahead, get blood! Come on!

We'll discuss that later.

Mrs. Weiser.

Well, your hands are very cold.

You dont need to be scared.

It's a routine operation.

After the chromosome analysis was ambiguous,

Now let's see if you have ovaries.

Yes, there will be an audience during the operation .

You want to show me off.

I am not your circus horse.

No, but you are my patient.

And in order to be able to give you an exact diagnosis ,

I depend on the consultation of my colleagues.

Do you understand?

Have confidence, Ms. Weiser.

I will give you the best possible treatment.

* Sad piano music *

(Arianna) If you need help,

we have an infant clinic.

(Rösler) We'll be fine.

Mrs. Roesler?

Goodbye.

You will do so in the department

present for internal affairs .

They know there.

Why are you doing this for me?

Because I know how it is

when a family is torn apart.

I never wanted to go back to Germany

nevertheless I followed my husband.

Believe me, it's not easy for me

to leave it all here.

I learned one thing:

No matter where you are, it is important that the ...

that the inner compass works.

The attitude.

Thanks.

Thank you very much for everything.

Good luck to you and your family.

The gynecology announced a premature birth . 32nd week.

Well then, prepare everything.

When did they call? Five minutes ago.

Then it will take another 25 minutes to get here.

When will this stubborn head finally give in?

The way is far too long!

These images are not intended for the public.

They are only used for documentation and help us with diagnosis.

Ladies and gentlemen, please be quiet.

I expect the utmost concentration from you

and sensitivity.

During the preparation,

as well as during the operation.

Think about the result.

In an hour it will be over and we will be certain.

We begin.

* Sad piano music *

* The door is opened. *

Do you do it halfway

You are not ready yet. Eleven days is not enough.

The tire has receded sufficiently.

Who is your doctor again here?

We don't fly together anymore.

Clear.

Of course we will fly together again.

So maybe not up there on the roof now , that's right.

Maybe not even to the other end of the world, but ...

the medical profession offers trips to Hungary.

That sounds really interesting. Budapest with a clinic visit.

By the way, Prokop has given me ...

I wo n't play this lying game anymore.

I will not stay here.

we are doctors, not politicians.

We are technical idiots who shouldn't look around.

This is what we are!

Stop fooling yourself all the time

just so you can go on in Prokop's laboratory.

Sorry, but nobody knows exactly how things will go from here.

So please stop acting like a god!

The lights will go out soon, Ella!

That everything hasn't collapsed here yet

is solely due to the fact

that we can improvise.

Flick work?

Then can be but not healthy,

build medical care.

Let alone a life.

Why have n't you left long ago

when everything is so terrible

They wrapped you around your finger.

Curt, you're so boarded up, the wall is nothing against that.

Crap.

With the ovaries in place , it is now clear

that it is a genetic defect.

A so-called pseudo - hermaphroditism feminine.

It's a form of intersex

in which the gonadal sex is female,

but the external appearance is masculine.

(Man) So basically a woman.

And.

In connection with the chromosome analysis

and the hormone status , the finding is now clear.

Many Thanks.

* Calm piano music *

What does the haptoglobin from Wittenberg do?

Also increased. Oh.

Just like here: gastritis, nephritis, hepatitis B.

I failed all along the line.

Anything else would have surprised me too.

We're looking for a needle in a haystack.

In a whole barn full of hay.

We have to fail. That's what drives us, huh?

Wittenberg? Did Dr. Turning your own key to the laboratory?

Of course not.

Then of course she'll get one now .

And get out of the corner.

Work here on the desk. Hm?

But...

You have discovered a sure indicator of inflammation in the blood.

That is a great achievement.

Now we have to go deep

become broader, systematize.

What if I disappoint you again?

Oh God, please disappoint me.

All along the line. Let me down.

But keep working with me.

A bone appears to have split in the cervical vertebra .

* Melancholy piano music *

You can be proud of yourself.

The first step has been taken.

I have a gender reassignment surgery on my side

now nothing in the way.

Yes, Mrs. Rapoport?

So, 36 minutes from my clinic to your clinic

are exactly 35 minutes too long.

Dear colleague, most children are born healthy.

The number of live births at the Charite

is excellent in a global comparison .

Might be. What about the newborns who need help?

Do you want to talk about my station? No.

I'll get the little socialists

and then you take care of the diseases.

Where does that lead when everyone does their own thing?

Let's work together

in the sense of a holistic medical image

and for the good of the children.

These are two completely different areas of expertise.

Yes, keep ignoring.

Do not look to the left or to the right.

Have you had an excellent ride so far.

What are you referring to?

My past under the National Socialists?

That I didn't fight in the resistance?

Do you have that in America? We're getting off the subject.

Yes I believe that too.

Everyone has an area of responsibility.

I don't control your work either.

I don't care about control. Oh no.

By the way, for the detour since the wall was built

I am not responsible.

Please contact the party secretary.

Pediatrician on gynecology, yes.

You have to be careful

that the pediatrician doesn't crawl into the uterus right away.

Then he's in the ovary

then he can immediately control conception.

* Laughter *

Sister Petra, is there anything else special?

Everything is quiet. Well. If what is you call me?

I want to check on Mr. Bruncken again.

* Shots *

What was that?

* Shots *

Those were shots. Somebody shot there.

* Exciting music *