2012
7.0 (26 votes)
1h 30m
Official Website
Genres
Drama
History
Production Companies
BBC
Whitby Davison Productions Ltd.
Whitby Davison Productions Ltd.
The Best of Men
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.
Key Crew
Producer: Harriet Davison
Writer: Lucy Gannon
Director of Photography: Matt Gray
Director: Tim Whitby
Top Cast
Eddie Marsan
Dr. Ludwig Guttmann
George MacKay
Private William Heath
Rob Brydon
Corporal Wynne Bowen
Niamh Cusack
Sister Edwards
Richard McCabe
Dr. Cowan
Nicholas Jones
General Blake
Tristan Sturrock
Sergeant 'Q' Hills
Tracy-Ann Oberman
Else Guttmann
