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The Best of Men (2012)

The Best of Men (2012)

Drama History
Release Date: 2012, August 16
Directors: Tim Whitby
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: BBC, Whitby Davison Productions Ltd.
Cast: Nicholas Jones, Rob Brydon, Richard McCabe, Eddie Marsan, Kim Chapman, George MacKay, Niamh Cusack, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Tristan Sturrock

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

biography medicine rehabilitation paralympics