The Best of Men (2012)
7
/10 By 26 Votes
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.
Release Date : August 16, 2012
Runtime : 90m
Companies : BBC, Whitby Davison Productions Ltd.
Countries : United Kingdom
Keywords : paralympics, rehabilitation, medicine, biography
