One Life

2023 Drama | Other
78%

In the months leading up to the Second World War, a young London stockbroker attempts to rescue hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Fifty years later he comes to terms with the guilt and grief he carried with him for decades. Fact-based drama, starring Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin and Helena Bonham Carter

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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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