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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.
Director(s): Tim Whitby
Writer(s): Lucy Gannon
Producer(s): Harriet Davison
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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 ...
