Royal Television Society West Of England Awards 2013. Winner in three categories: "Best TV drama", "Best Actor", Eddie Marsan and "Best Screenplay" - Lucy Gannon. The film is about the founder of the Paralympic movement, eminent neurosurgeon Ludwig Guttmann (1899-1980), originally from Germany, who has long worked in a hospital in Breslau. In 1939 he emigrated to England. His medical talent was obvious and soon appreciated: on behalf of the British Government in 1944, he founded and headed the Center for Spinal Injuries at the hospital of the small town of Stoke, Mandeville in 74 km from London. Using his techniques, Guttman helped many soldiers, wounded in the fighting of World War II, return to a normal life after a serious injury. An important place in these techniques was given to sports. It is in Stoke, Mandeville in 1948 Ludwig Guttmann held a competition in archery among athletes in wheelchairs - and in London at the same time to open the Olympic Games. In 1952 at the same time with the next Olympics, he organized the first international competition with the participation of 130 disabled athletes from England and Holland. And in 1956, for organizing the following major events of people with disabilities, Guttman was awarded the International Olympic Committee - Fearnley Cup for his contribution to the Olympic movement. Guttman's perseverance was a success. Immediately after the Olympics in 1960 in Rome, the first Summer Paralympic Games, and from 1976 they are regularly in winter too. For outstanding achievements in saving people from physical and mental ailments, for assisting in restoring their sense of civic usefulness and dignity, Guttman received a knighthood and the highest award - the Order of the British Empire.