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Dr. Ludwig Guttmann
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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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| Homepage | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m1jqd |
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| Release Date | 2012-08-16 |
| Runtime | 1h 30m |
| Directors | Tim Whitby, Matt Gray, Russell Dewulf Booth, Will Cummins, Jon Older |
| Producers | Harriet Davison, Tracie Wright, Matthew Read |
| Writer | Lucy Gannon |
