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The Best of Men 2012

90 min TMDB 6.9 Drama History

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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Cast

  • Eddie Marsan as Dr. Ludwig Guttmann
  • George MacKay as Private William Heath
  • Rob Brydon as Corporal Wynne Bowen
  • Niamh Cusack as Sister Edwards
  • Richard McCabe as Dr. Cowan
  • Nicholas Jones as General Blake

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