Watch the trailer for #OneLife starring Anthony Hopkins, based on the incredible true story of Sir Nicholas Winton. In cinemas January 1.
ONE LIFE tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker played by Hopkins, who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 children from the Nazis. 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 tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker played by Hopkins, who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 children from the Nazis. 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.
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00:00 30 seconds to on air.
00:03 Okay, and you are just here.
00:06 Good night, Sid Faribault.
00:09 Now, an extraordinary story about a young man who many years ago visited Prague.
00:19 What he found there were thousands of refugees at the mercy of Hitler's imminent invasion.
00:29 Do you ever think about the children and what happened to them?
00:32 Oh, thank you.
00:34 I bet you've got some stories.
00:38 Most are really not about me.
00:41 We are working to evacuate these children by train to safety in Britain.
00:48 Why are you doing this, Mr. Winton?
00:51 Because I may be able to do something about it.
00:54 I must.
00:57 Go. Now.
00:59 Nicky, you must know we cannot save them all.
01:09 You have to forgive yourself that.
01:12 I started to. I have to finish it.
01:16 We cannot let these people down.
01:19 It is incredible what you achieved.
01:23 We're doing as much as we can.
01:27 You have a lot of faith in ordinary people.
01:30 Because I'm an ordinary person.
01:33 Save one life, save the world.
01:36 Forgive me, but how many children are we speaking about?
01:39 Can I ask, is there anyone in the audience tonight who owes their life to Nicholas Winton?
01:48 (Music)
01:52 (Music)
01:57 (dramatic music)