
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 90m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: Tim Whitby
- Stars: Eddie Marsan, George MacKay, Rob Brydon, Niamh Cusack, Richard McCabe
- keywords: paralympics, rehabilitation, medicine, biography
- Production_studio: BBC, Whitby Davison Productions Ltd.
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.