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The Best of Men

  • August 2012
  • 1hr

    30mins

  • Drama
  • History
  • Directed by

    Matthew Read,

    Tim Whitby,

    Starring

    Eddie Marsan,

    George MacKay,

    Rob Brydon,

    Niamh Cusack

    ...

    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.