A trailer has debuted for the Anthony Hopkins-led film One Life, a true story about Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 children from the Nazis.
Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Marthe Keller, Jonathan Pryce and Helena Bonham Carter are also among the cast of the film, which is set to land in cinemas in January, smack in the middle of awards season.
Hopkins and Johnny Flynn both play Nicholas Winton at different stages of his extraordinary life. Helena Bonham-Carter plays Winton’s mother, Babi.
Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realised it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed?
Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s Life!’, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children – now adults – that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades.
One Life will premiere at this year’s BFI London Film Festival which kicks off in the capital next month before getting a release in the UK on January 1st next year through Warner Brothers.
This looks like an absolute must. If you want to take this further, I suggest you go on over to YouTube itself which has the ‘That’s Life!’ episode on which Winton appears.
Here’s the trailer.
