The Best of Men
The Best of Men
Release: 2012-08-16
·Runtime: 90m
·★ 7.0
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
BBC
Whitby Davison Productions Ltd.
Cast
Eddie Marsan
as Dr. Ludwig Guttmann
Rob Brydon
as Corporal Wynne Bowen
Richard McCabe
as Dr. Cowan
Tristan Sturrock
as Sergeant 'Q' Hills
Tracy-Ann Oberman
as Else Guttmann
Kim Chapman
as Windmill Girl (uncredited)
George MacKay
as Private William Heath
Niamh Cusack
as Sister Edwards
Nicholas Jones
as General Blake
