One Life

01/01/24 14:57

One Life

Storyline: The true story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who,
in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish 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 realized
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 t
he 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.

Cast; Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Fly,, Helene Bonham Carter

My rating: Excellent

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