One Life

2023
PG
1h 49m

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

28K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

955

The story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued Jewish children from the Nazis.

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Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

28K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

955

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins

Videos5

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Watch One Life: Stories From The Heart (Featurette)

Featurette 1:29

Watch One Life: That's Life (Featurette)

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Trivia
Helena Bonham Carter's maternal grandfather, Eduardo Proper de Callejon, also rescued many Jews from the Holocaust, by forging Spanish exit visas.

Goofs
In 1938 Nicky answers his phone at home and straight away speaks to his friend calling from Czechoslovakia. At that time all trunk (long distance) and international calls to and from the UK were operator-connected and there would have been a delay before the two parties could speak to each other.

Quotes
Doreen Warriner: I don't know what you're doing, but if you're doing what I think you're doing, I don't want to know.

Crazy credits
PROLOGUE: "In 1938, Hitler occupies Austria and demand possession of a region of Czechoslovakia: the Sudetenland."

"The leaders of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to his demand in the hope of avoiding war."

"The next day, Hitler's troops cross the border into Czechoslovakia."

"Tens of thousands of refugees flee towards unoccupied Prague."

"Many of them families with children."

Connections
Featured in Amanda the Jedi Show: I ALMOST Walked Out | The Best and Worst of TIFF 2023 (2023)

Soundtracks
Così fan tutte, K. 588 / Act II: Donne mie, la fate a tanti
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Adam Plachetka, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Under licence from Universal Music Operations Ltd

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Featured review

Worthy tear jerker.

Anthony Hopkins excels in the lead role, showing he's still magnetic well into his 80s and he's ably supported by Johnny Flynn playing him as a younger man and it's good to see Lena Olin again on the screen, playing his wife.

It's a solid drama that will appeal to the same target audience that made The Great Escaper,Operation Mincemeat,Dirty Little Letters etc popular; the older generation- and there's nothing wrong with, at least their going to the movies!

I knew about the Kindertransport but not fully; this film dutifully tells the story and it has the same level of tension that Munich: The Edge of War had ,countries being invaded as a set up to tell humane stories.

The classic TV recreation on' This Life' was well done and moving.