The Best of Men
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1hr
30mins
Directed by
Matthew Read,
Tim Whitby,
Starring
Eddie Marsan,
George MacKay,
Rob Brydon,
Niamh Cusack
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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.