The Best of Men (2012)

Directors

Tim Whitby

Cast

Eddie Marsan, George MacKay, Rob Brydon, Niamh Cusack, Richard McCabe, Nicholas Jones, Bebe Sanders, Leigh Quinn

The story

Ludwig Guttmann (Marsan) is a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, sponsored to stay in the United Kingdom by CARA, while his patients were injured British servicemen, initially bewildered at finding themselves under the care of one of "the enemy". On arrival at the hospital, the patients are kept under sedation, and immobile in bed, a regime leading to bedsores, infection, and, in many cases, death. Dr Guttman insists that the best prognosis for the patients is if they are as mobile as possible.

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