The Best of Men

The Best of Men

(2012)

In 1943, a refugee doctor from Nazi Germany uses new methods to rehabilitate those with spinal injuries in Great Britain. Based on actual events.

Towards the end of the Second World War, Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a brisk refugee from Nazi Germany, arrives at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and is appalled to find the partially paralysed spinal patients heavily sedated and left to rot with bed sores. He immediately begins a new regime, disposing of old equipment and sedatives, bringing him into conflict with stern Sister Edwards and pompous consultant Cowan, as well as the patients. However the sister backs him when she realises he is treating her charges as people, not patients, talking to them and involving them in musical entertainments and sporting activity. Soon Whitehall are sending him all their spinal patients and, with visits to the pub and wheelchair sports taught by an army sergeant, he becomes the men's hero. With the war over Ludwig organizes national wheelchair sports competitions which will in turn lead to the establishment of the Paralympic games. An end title informs that in 1966, now a British citizen, Dr Guttmann was knighted for his part in bringing hope to the hopeless.-don @ minifie-1
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Rating

MovieScout Rating 7.9

Genres

Biography,Drama,History,War

Runtime

1h 30m

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Director

Tim Whitby

Cast

George MacKay
Bebe Sanders
Leigh Quinn
Eddie Marsan
Ben Owen-Jones
Rob Brydon
David Proud
Niamh Cusack
Richard McCabe
Nicholas Jones
Tristan Sturrock
Nigel Lindsay
Rachael Spence
Tracy-Ann Oberman
Stephen McGonigle
Mali Harries
Edmund Digby-Jones
Francesca Bailey

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