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The Best of Men

6.9(30)20121h 30m2

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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Language
English
  • paralympics
  • rehabilitation
  • medicine
  • biography

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Director

Tim Whitby

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United Kingdom

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  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical16 Aug 2012
  • BrazilBR

    • Digital / OTT14Prime Video12 Sept 2021

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The Best of Men was released on 16 August 2012.

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    CinemaSerf

    7/12/2024

    7/10

    Eddie Marsan is really very good here as the pioneering spinal surgeon Dr. Ludwig Guttmann who fled the Nazis and helped established the world renowned hospital at Stoke Mandeville. At the time, that was a converted stately home used for recuperating soldiers injured during the Second World War. The treatment consisted largely of leaving these young men in bed, sedated, with little hope and even less opportunity to i…

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