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    The Best of Men 2012 POSTER

    The Best of Men

    2012

    English

    7.9

    ♡ 1

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    paralympics

    rehabilitation

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    Tim Whitby Tim Whitby Director Rob Brydon Rob Brydon as Corporal Wynne Bowen Richard McCabe Richard McCabe as Dr Cowan Eddie Marsan Eddie Marsan as Dr Ludwig Guttmann Mali Harries Mali Harries as Shirley Bowen
    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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