The Best of Men
2012-08-16 | 90 min
Ludwig Guttmann, a renowned German neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in the early days of WWII, takes a position at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England in 1944 and begins to transform the lives of his patients, paralyzed soldiers that have been written-off and who are facing death from neglect. A breakthrough comes when Dr. Guttmann introduces sport into their rehabilitation, a breakthrough that leads to the founding of the Paralympic Games.
Genres
Drama History
Cast
Eddie Marsan
George MacKay
Rob Brydon
Niamh Cusack
Richard McCabe
Nicholas Jones
Tristan Sturrock
Tracy-Ann Oberman
