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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.
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George MacKay
Private William Heath
Eddie Marsan
Dr. Ludwig Guttmann
Rob Brydon
Corporal Wynne Bowen
Niamh Cusack
Sister Edwards
Nicholas Jones
General Blake
Richard McCabe
Dr. Cowan
Tracy-Ann Oberman
Else Guttmann
Tristan Sturrock
Sergeant 'Q' Hills
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