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.
George MacKay | Private William Heath | |
Rob Brydon | Corporal Wynne Bowen | |
Niamh Cusack | Sister Edwards | |
Richard McCabe | Dr. Cowan | |
Nicholas Jones | General Blake | |
Tristan Sturrock | Sergeant 'Q' Hills |
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