Hospital at the End of the City (Czech: Nemocnice na kraji města) is a popular television series first released in Czechoslovakia in 1977,[1] 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.[2]
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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.
"Nemocnice" featured a cast of actors, many who were very big stars at the time in Czechoslovakia. The cast included; Ladislav Chudík, Josef Abrhám, Miloš Kopecký, Iva Janžurová, Eliška Balzerová, Jana Štěpánková, Ladislav Frej and others.
A sequel series was developed in 2003[3] called Hospital at the End of the City After Twenty Years (Czech: Nemocnice na kraji města po dvaceti letech), it got mixed reviews and starred most of the original cast. In autumn 2008, a second sequel will be broadcast.