One Life

2023
78%

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.

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by Brian Lloyd
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'One Life' is a character study in extraordinary humility

Nicholas Winton (Johnny Flynn / Anthony Hopkins) is a retired financial executive who has been charged by his wife (Lena Olin) their home. In doing so, Nicholas reflects on his younger years and a key moment of it when he helped to save the lives of hundreds of Jewish children from escaping the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. Having lost contact with them after so many years, Nicholas attempts to reconnect with them with the help of a television show...

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