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The Best of Men

Drama, History | 2012-08-16 | United Kingdom

IMDB7.0 / 10

Budget$0

Budget$0

Runtime90 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.

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BBC
Whitby Davison Productions Ltd.

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