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.
Stars: Eddie Marsan, George MacKay, Rob Brydon, Niamh Cusack, Richard McCabe, Nicholas Jones
Crew: Harriet Davison (Producer), Lucy Gannon (Writer), Tim Whitby (Director), Tracie Wright (Line Producer), Mark Russell (Original Music Composer), Matt Gray (Director of Photography)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Studio: BBC, Whitby Davison Productions Ltd.
Runtime: 90 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Aug 16, 2012
IMDb: 4.1
