The Citadel

Name: The Citadel
Released: 2003-03-02T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Massimo Ghini, Barbora Bobulova, Franco Castellano

TV Show · Drama

Young idealistic doctor Andrew Mason does all he can to improve the abysmal health conditions in a small Welsh mining town in the 1930s, but his ambitions sidetrack him.

2003 · 1h 35m

Starring Massimo Ghini, Barbora Bobulova, Franco Castellano

Director Fabrizio Costa

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Andrew Manson, a former miner turned doctor, arrives in Aberalaw for his first assignment as a doctor's assistant. There he meets Cristina Barlow, a schoolteacher with a mysterious past.
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Cristina agrees to marry Andrew when a great love from her past re-enters her life. The doctor, shaken by the revelation, decides to help her come to terms with her past.
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

Andrew and Cristina return to London in search of work, but live in absolute poverty. However, a meeting with an old friend helps the doctor make his way in high society.
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

Andrew enters into an affair with the aristocratic Francis, while his wife Cristina takes refuge in an old lover; the death of a patient helps the doctor find himself.