The Best of Men (TV)
2012 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Towards the end of the second world war Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a brisk refugee from Nazi Germany, arrives at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and is appalled to find the partially paralysed spinal patients heavily sedated and left to rot with bed sores. He immediately begins a new regime,disposing of old equipment and sedatives, bringing him into conflict with stern Sister Edwards and pompous consultant Cowan, as well as the patients. However the sister backs him when she realises he is treating her charges as people, not patients, talking to them and involving them in musical entertainments and sporting activity.
Direction Tim Whitby
Cast Eddie Marsan · George MacKay · Rob Brydon · Niamh Cusack · Richard McCabe · Bee Bee Sanders · Leigh Quinn · Ben Owen-Jones · David Proud · Nicholas Jones · Tristan Sturrock · Nigel Lindsay · Rachael Spence · Tracy Ann Oberman · Stephen McGonigle · Mali Harries
Soundtrack Mark Russell
Screenplay Lucy Gannon
Cinematography Matt Gray
Original title The Best of Men (TV)
6.6
166 votes (FilmAffinity)
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