Director: James Hawes
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 109
minutes
Year: 2020
Starring: Anthony
Hopkins, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter, Romola Garai, Alex
Sharp
Description: Sir Nicholas
‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World
Ward !!, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
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Review: Prague, 1938. Englishman Nicholas Winton is persuaded to come and offer
help. Nicholas arrives at a refugee camp where dozens of displaced Jewish
families are living in the cold, homeless, and this is just one of many.
Nichols is moved and knows that war could break out at any moment. He wants to
try at least get the children out. That is easier sais than done.
The story alternates between
the late 1930s with young Nicholas and the 1980s with Anthony Hopkins playing
the elderly Winton. Old Nicholas is not comfortable in his own skin. He is know
for his deep melancholy. Young Nicholas doesn’t realize that he is about to
change lives, ones he and his team start getting Jewish children of the train
to England.
It’s a story about a true
hero, who did a completely selfless act and helped save over 600 children’s
lives. The ending is very emotional and satisfying and it solves the mystery of
old Nicholas’ negative attitude. As a World War II film, “One Life” is nothing
new. But the story is about someone who deserves to be in mentioned, for all
the good deeds he did, when other’s just looked away.
Rating: 3,5/ 5
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